Small brown fine line tattoo of a curled fox on the upper chest near the collarbone.

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Small fox tattoo near the collarbone

Fine line · Chest · Black and grey · Photo

A small fox curled up with its tail wrapped around its body, shown in brown ink with delicate linework and light hatched shading. The design sits on pale skin just below the collarbone, with the neckline of a light top visible at the bottom of the frame. The image is warm-toned and the tattoo occupies a small area in the centre-left of the composition.

Fine line Chest Fox Tail Animal

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The fox came up from the shingle the week the lamp started failing, and my father swore it was the same one that had stolen his pasty every Tuesday since spring. It didn't look like a thief that winter. It looked like something that had given up on the wind and folded itself small against it, tail wrapped twice around its body the way you'd tie a parcel you didn't expect to be opened.

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The trouble was the wick carrier, a brass fitting my father had been meaning to send ashore for repair since August. Without it the beam swept lopsided across the water, like a man waving with one arm. The Craster boats grumbled over the radio and kept their distance. I spent three nights up the iron stairs with a file and a torch, and each dawn the fox was waiting on the step below the gallery door, neither asleep nor awake, its eyes two dull coins.

On the fourth night the carrier split clean in two in my hands. I sat on the cold floor and cried the way you do when nobody is there to see it. When I looked up, the fox had slipped in under the door. It watched me from beside the paraffin drum, the way my mother used to watch the kettle, then walked to the lamp housing and lay down against the warm glass, tail round its nose.

I thought it a fool's place to sleep. Then I saw the old carrier pin, the one I'd been missing since my grandfather's day, lying bright in the dust where the fox had dragged it. I fixed the light with that pin and a length of copper wire, and the beam swung true by morning. The fox was gone from the step. My father still leaves a pasty out on Tuesdays, and I have never told him why.