Black and white photo of a small solid black cat silhouette tattoo sitting behind a person's ear, on the neck area.

Small cat silhouette behind an ear

Neck · Black and grey · Photo

A close black and white photograph of a person's ear with dark hair falling away to the left. A tiny, solid black silhouette of a seated cat, with its tail curling to one side, sits on the skin behind the ear. The cat is shown in profile against pale skin, and the ear dominates the right of the frame.

Neck Cat Silhouette Ear

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Come in close, the pair of you, the big top is down to its last six guy ropes and I haven't the lungs to shout over the wind. Mind the sawdust. That black heap by the tent pole is Ash, and he was here before the elephants were sold, so he has the right to sit where he likes.

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The Halloran Brothers' Travelling Marvel had one trick left in 1931, and it wasn't the knife-thrower. It was a black cat who would sit still on a velvet cushion while the ringmaster murmured into the ear of the girl who sold the peanuts. Nobody knew what he murmured. The girl, Winnie Dacre, swore it was the names of towns the company would never reach.

Winnie left at the end of that season with a carpet bag and a debt the brothers wrote off as a kindness. The cat stayed. Every night after that he sat on the pole-step and watched the empty benches, his tail curled round his paws, facing the road she had taken as if he expected her to come back and ask him something.

So when the last caravan rolled out in the spring, the old ringmaster carried Ash up the lane himself and set him down on the verge where the sun was warm. Go on, then, he said. Tell her we kept the tent up as long as we could. The cat didn't move, and that was the last anyone saw of him.