Colour tattoo of a stretched yellow unicorn-like creature trailing a rainbow across the forearm, in a cartoon style.

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Yellow unicorn creature over a rainbow on a forearm

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A stretched yellow creature with a pink horn and small legs runs along a curved rainbow band that arcs across the forearm. The outlines are dark and clean, with flat, bright fills in yellow, pink, green, blue and red. The tattoo fills the centre of the frame against a soft, out-of-focus background, with a teal sleeve at the right edge.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The creature came up the Mardle canal the week the lock gates jammed, and it was so long that it took three afternoons to pass the towpath. Nobody could say where it had come from. It was yellow as a fresh yolk, with a pink horn like a barber's pole that had lost its nerve, and it walked on legs so short they looked like an afterthought.

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Dunstan Cole, who kept the lock, had a coal barge stuck on the wrong side of the gates and no way to shift it. He stood on the beam with his tea going cold and watched the creature stop, consider the water, and then bend itself over the painted rainbow on the gate, arching across the canal like a bridge. The coal barge slid under its belly with an inch to spare. Dunstan said afterwards that the creature had looked pleased with itself, which was more than he could say for the council man who came next morning with a clipboard.

The clipboard man measured it with a tape, wrote unsuitable for waterways, and tried to lead it off by the horn. It simply stretched, slowly and happily, along the bank toward the bakery, its rainbow dragging behind it through the reeds until the baker came out to see what the fuss was about.

By the end of the month the Brindle Street children had tied ribbons to its horn and sang it to sleep in the lock basin. The council stopped sending men with clipboards. Dunstan left the gates open at dusk, and the creature curled over the water with its rainbow glowing above it, and every boat that came through the Mardle went under its arch with the bow lowered out of courtesy.

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