Close photo of a person's side and ribs in a sparkly bikini top, with black outline star tattoos of varying sizes across the skin.

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Outline stars across the ribs

Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A close view of a torso lying on a patterned purple blanket in bright sunlight. Several black outline stars of different sizes run across the side of the ribs and the waist, with a small navel piercing visible. The bikini top is covered in sparkling embellishments in pink, green and silver tones, which contrast with the plain black ink.

Ribs Star Bikini Navel piercing

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The lamp at the end of platform four had blown again, so Nell Corrigan climbed the ladder with a tin of black paint and a stub of chalk, because the 6.12 would not wait for the dark to be sorted. Mr Hollis, the stationmaster, stood below with his arms folded and his cap pushed back. Stars, he said, were for sailors. Nell said they were for anyone who had to get home after the buses stopped running.

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She drew them along the iron beam above the waiting room bench, one large, one small, then a cluster that looked spilled. Each one had an outline and nothing inside, so the light could pass through and fall on the tiles below. By November the children from the school near the cutting had started lying on the bench with their heads at the right angle, counting. Mr Hollis stopped complaining about the paint on his coat sleeves.

On the last Friday before the line closed for the winter works, the sun came low through the western glass and the shadows of the stars slid across the platform and up the side of the 6.12 as it pulled in. Nell watched them move, the big one landing on the driver's cab, the small one skipping over the coupling. Mr Hollis read it differently. He said the stars had been pointing the whole time, and that the train had only ever needed someone to draw the way out.