Black and grey fine line tattoo of a diagonal arrow crossed by two overlapping circles and small dots, on the upper arm.

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Arrow and overlapping circles on an arm

Fine line · Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A fine line tattoo shows a long diagonal line ending in an arrowhead at the lower left, with two overlapping circles of different sizes and small dots placed along the line. The linework is thin and even, and the design is in black ink only, shown against smooth skin in a close, slightly angled photograph with a blurred background.

Fine line Geometric Upper arm Arrow Circle Line Dot

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit closer, love, the band's on its break and I've only got the one good story left in me tonight. Mind that chair, it wobbles like Harold's knee. The summer the ballroom roof leaked, Mr Pryce from the printworks had a pair of brass compasses he'd brought back from the Navy, and he drew two rings in chalk on the sprung floor, one wide and one narrow, and the girls wouldn't step inside them.

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Those rings were where you stood if you wanted to be found. Pryce said they were two towns that had once been one, and where their edges crossed was a door nobody could see. Every Saturday he laid a dot of chalk along a line that ran from the bandstand to the front doors, and every Saturday somebody's sweetheart walked that line and ended up at the arrow he'd painted on the bottom step, pointing out to the cold street.

Then Lily Ashdown, who sewed the band's jackets, borrowed her brother's pencil and a length of string. She measured from the first dot to the last and worked out the door sat a yard inside the smaller ring, under the piano. She knelt on the boards and pressed, and one board lifted with a sigh like a dance card closing. Underneath there was nothing but dust and one brass compass point, and a folded slip in Pryce's hand that said only, the line was never meant to lead anyone out.

Lily didn't go through. She took the pencil, drew her own line from the piano to the doors, and set the arrow of it pointing back at the hall. She married the drummer that winter, and the floor's still scuffed where she knelt, if you want to look on your way out.