Small black fine line tattoo of round glasses and a lightning bolt on an ankle.

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Round glasses and lightning bolt on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A small black tattoo of a pair of round-lensed glasses with a lightning bolt above them sits on an ankle. The thin, even outlines are drawn in black ink with no shading or fill. The photo is taken from a low angle against a red bedsheet, with the tattoo and skin as the main focus.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Right, sit down at the back, and mind the sticky patch by the urn, it's been there since the Coronation. You want the tale of Alfie Penhallow, who wore round spectacles mended with brown thread and carried a bolt of lightning inked above his ankle bone. Nobody in Hartlepool believed the bit about the sky, but the bulbs in the Palais did go out the night he came in.

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He was a clerk at the gasworks, all elbows and sums, and he could not dance. Every Saturday he stood by the pillar with his glasses pushed up his nose, watching Nora Tully turn in her green frock while the band played Glenn Miller loud enough to rattle the tin ceiling. His grandmother had given him that mark before she died. A man should carry one thing that can strike, she told him, and he took it to mean he should ask Nora to dance.

When Nora's partner trod on her hem and sent her staggering, Alfie crossed the floor faster than anyone had ever seen him move. Just then every bulb in the hall popped at once. In the blue dark there was only the flash of his lenses catching the glow of the exit sign, and Nora's hand finding his.

The lights came back on at midnight, and the band struck up again. Look at the boards by the stage, and you'll see a little scorch where his heel pivoted, in the shape of a pair of spectacles. Nobody has ever managed to sand it out.

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