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Realistic wolf tattoo across chest and shoulder
Realism · Chest · Black and grey · Photo
A large wolf walks forward with its head turned towards the viewer, its eyes and fur rendered in fine detail. The fur is built up with soft, layered shading in black and grey, and dark shadowing behind the animal suggests a rocky or wooded background. The image is a close crop of bare skin, with the design filling the chest and reaching onto the shoulder.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
Dear Tom, Mrs Carrick at the chandlery says the wolf came down off the scree again on Tuesday, walking the top of the quarry road with its grey shoulders square as a man's. By dusk half the town was out with lanterns, pretending they were only after the mackerel boats.
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I went down myself, which you'll think foolish, with Dad's old oilskin on and no torch. It stopped at the end of the breakwater where the stone is black with weed and turned its head to look back at me, slow, the way a man checks whether you're still following. The lamp from the Skerry light caught its eyes and held them. I wasn't frightened. I felt I'd been expected.
Then it went back up into the dark, the wind swung round, and I heard the Maggie Rae's engine coughing out past the point. Dad's boat. Thirty years he's been gone and nobody has rigged her since the funeral, yet there she was, running without lights. The lads came in an hour later, soaked to the skin, swearing they'd seen her lit up off the Stack with nobody aboard.
I'm writing because you'll say it's the drink talking, and maybe it is. Come home at Easter if you can and bring the good tea. There's a place laid at the table, and I've stopped pretending it's for nobody. Love, Nell
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