Realistic black cat head tattoo with yellow eyes, shaded in black and grey, on the side of a torso near the ribs.

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Realistic black cat head on the side

Realism · Ribs · Mixed · Photo

A black cat in three-quarter profile looks up and to the side, with yellow eyes and fine whiskers. The fur is rendered with soft, layered shading and glossy highlights, giving it a photographic, lifelike finish. The ink is almost entirely black and grey apart from the yellow eyes, and the tattoo fills the centre of the frame against bare skin.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The cat had been living under the bench on platform four since the signal box closed, and Margaret Okafor at the lost property hatch had decided it was none of her business. It was black as a coal scuttle, with one ear notched from some old argument with a fox. Every evening at twenty past six it padded to the gap by the ticket barrier, sat down neatly, and looked up past the departure boards as though a train it had been promised was late.

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Nobody else noticed. Commuters looked at their phones, the guard looked at his watch, and the pigeons looked at whatever pigeons look at. Margaret noticed because she was also watching the clock above platform four, and over the winter the two of them had developed an arrangement neither would mention: whoever looked away first had to make the tea. The cat never once looked away. Margaret usually did.

On a wet Thursday in February the 18:20 was cancelled, and a man in a damp grey coat came to the hatch with a shoebox of letters tied in string. He wanted them held for a woman in Whitby, he said, a woman he had not written to since the year his father died. Margaret took the box and glanced past him at the barrier. The cat had stood up. It was walking towards the stairs the man had come down, tail high, not hurrying at all.

When the 18:50 finally rolled in, Margaret watched it jump into the third carriage through the open door and settle on a seat by the window. She told herself it was a station cat with a sense of timing. Through the glass its eyes caught the platform light, two yellow lamps turned towards the dark fields, and it did not look back at her once.