Realistic zombie face tattoo in brown and grey tones with pale blue eyes and yellow hair accents, across the calf.

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Realistic zombie face on a calf

Realism · Calf · Mixed · Photo

A detailed portrait of a decaying zombie face fills the calf, with sunken pale blue eyes, a cracked nose, and an open mouth showing teeth. Smooth shading and fine texture work give the skin a rotted, wrinkled look, and hair falls around the head. The palette is mostly browns and greys, with yellow accents in the hair and small areas of blue in the eyes. The design is centred on the leg and fills most of the frame, with part of another tattoo visible at the bottom edge.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You have been turning the same bed for three weeks, and the couch grass keeps coming back through the cardboard you laid down in March. Your neighbour Mrs Okonkwo-Hale calls it a war of attrition. You tell her the allotment society has never once written a rule against stubbornness. Today the fork goes into the soft black earth behind the water butt and meets something that gives like a wet loaf.

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It is a face. Not a carving, but the whole front of one, pressed flat into the clay as if someone had pushed a mask down and walked away. The skin has gone the colour of weak tea and split across the cheekbone in a line like a dry riverbed. Where the eyes should be there are two pale blue marbles, glassy and patient, and a fringe of straw-coloured roots hangs from the crown like hair left out in the rain. You kneel. You do not scream, because the sunflowers are watching, and you have never been the sort to scream in front of sunflowers.

By noon you have uncovered a tin with a name tag wired to its lid: Dora, plot 14. Dora had the plot before you, before the council sent its letters about the fence. Her sunflowers stood taller than the shed every August, and nobody could ever say why they grew so well in soil that had killed everything else. You remember the bloom heads turning to follow you down the path, slow as a crowd.

You do not call the society. Instead you tip a handful of seed into the hollow where her mouth used to be, press the earth flat over it, and water it gently with the can. Mrs Okonkwo-Hale is watching from her side of the fence. You tell her the couch grass has finally given up.

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