Black tribal sun flash design with eight flame-like rays radiating from a central point, drawn on white paper.

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Tribal sun design in black ink

Blackwork · Black and grey · Flash

A solid black tribal sun design with eight tapering, flame-like rays radiating from a small open centre. The linework is bold and filled, with no shading, and the design is drawn on plain white paper. The composition is symmetrical and centred on the page.

Blackwork Sun Tribal Flame Ray Star

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Now sit down, the lot of you, and stop looking at the clock over the bar. That clock stopped the night the sun came down to Coldharbour Hall. Nineteen forty-one, the last Saturday before the blackout, and Ada Fenwick was wearing her mother's green shoes and refusing every man who asked her up.

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The sun came through the skylight as a ring of black flame, eight rays of it, sleek as tar and not one bit hot. It hung over the middle of the floor and nobody screamed. Stan Obi kept his sticks going on the snare because his hands would not stop for him. Ada slipped off the green shoes, walked out into the light, and the rays bent down to meet her, curling round her ankles like a cat that had waited all winter for the door to open.

The sun wanted a partner, that was all. It swept out and back, out and back, and Ada followed, and the whole hall fell in behind her, skirts and braces and tin trumpets. By midnight the floorboards had burned themselves into spikes where the rays had turned, and the sun was giddy as a girl, spinning so fast the flames blurred into one dark wheel.

At dawn it climbed back up through the glass, and it left its shape behind. Mr Pryce went to sweep and found the broom would not go past the centre of the floor. Go and look under the varnish if you don't believe me. Lift your feet, Mr Pryce, you're standing on it now.