Close photo of a black fine-line tattoo of an anchor wrapped in an infinity symbol, with the script words I refuse to sink beneath it, on skin.

Anchor and infinity with script quote

Lettering · Black and grey · Photo

A black anchor is intertwined with an infinity symbol, with its shank and flukes overlapping the looped curve. Beneath it, the phrase I refuse to sink is written in a flowing black script with clean, even linework. The design is shown in close crop against a warm skin tone, with no other body features visible.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The tide came up the gatehouse steps again last night and took the bench you made me, so I've moved my bed into the chapel, where the roof still holds half a sky.

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The rusted anchor Dad dragged out of the shingle is lying in the nave now, its flukes eating a slow hole through the flagstones. Mrs Pryce from the village says it's bad luck to keep a ship's iron indoors, but I think the castle is the one that's sinking, and it hasn't finished yet. Yesterday I chalked a loop round the shank on the north wall, the way you'd draw a figure eight for a bairn learning sums, and then I couldn't stop walking round it.

The surveyor came out from Alnwick with his clipboard and said the walls were no longer safe to sleep under. I told him I'd already decided. He asked whether I meant to leave, and I said no, I meant to stay exactly where the water could reach me and see what it did about that.

Your collier is due in Blyth on the twelfth. Come up the coast road and bring the good rope. We'll tie the anchor to the gatehouse door and let the sea argue with it all it likes. Tell the lads I refuse to sink. It's your turn to make the bench.

Nell

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