Small fine line tattoo of a tan bear resembling Winnie the Pooh with a tiny pink butterfly, on the inner wrist.

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Small bear and butterfly on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Colour · Photo

A small tattoo of a cartoon bear in a classic storybook style sits on the inner wrist, with a tiny pink butterfly above its left side. The bear is drawn in thin black outline with soft tan-brown shading, and the butterfly is filled with a muted pink. The tattoo is centred on the wrist against a plain, lightly blurred background.

Fine line Forearm Bear Butterfly Cartoon character Winnie the pooh

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, the lot of you, and mind the dust on the step. You want the bear story, the one about the road out past Caddon Wells? Right. Everyone's heard of the bear that hitched rides, but nobody's heard the true version.

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Ida Marsh ran the petrol station at the junction, the one with the tin sign that said only FUEL and a bulb that never worked. Her father had made the bear from a sack of wool and a button tin, and it had a habit of walking off. Every morning it was gone from the counter, and every evening it turned up sitting on the bonnet of whoever had been last through. Her father swore it was following the butterflies. Pink ones, no bigger than a thumbnail, that rose off the salt flats after the rain.

The winter the road washed out, a boy came through in a truck with no lights and a load of honey in drums. He had a tin of pins and a map drawn on the back of a feed bag. He bought a Coke, and while he counted out coins the bear slid off the shelf and sat down on his boot. He laughed so hard he forgot to pay. Ida let him go. She said the bear had decided, and she was not going to argue with a bear.

Years later a letter came to the station, postmarked from somewhere green. Stuck to the paper was a single pink butterfly, flattened and faded, and the words: the bear got me home. That's all it said. Ida pinned it above the till, and the bear sat beneath it, facing the road, waiting for somebody else lost enough to need it.