Small fine line black ink tattoo of a curling wave inside a circle on a pale forearm, beside a black sleeve.

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Wave in a circle on a forearm

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A small circular tattoo shows a curling wave with crest and spray, drawn in fine black linework with stippled shading. The circle frames the wave against plain pale skin. The image is in black ink only, with a dark sleeve at the left edge and a plain background.

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Mrs Pryce kept the cloakroom at the Marine Ballroom in Hastings, and from her hatch she could see the whole floor through the round brass porthole someone had salvaged from a trawler and bolted into the wall. Most nights it showed her only the feet of dancers, polished shoes turning in a blur. Tonight it showed the sea, grey and high, because the tide had come up the promenade and the spray was striking the glass.

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Her nephew Danny came in from the bandstand with his trumpet case under one arm and a wet coat over the other. He had been told not to play the slow numbers after the storm warning, and he had played them anyway. "They'll want the foxtrot again," he said. "Tell them the sea's doing the lead."

She handed him a ticket stub for his coat. "Your grandfather would have had the doors shut by now."

Outside, a wave rolled over the rail in one slow curl, white at the crest, and for a moment the porthole held the whole of it inside its single round frame. Then the crowd on the floor turned together, the way a tide does, the band struck up, and Danny went back out with his horn raised.

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