Black script lettering reading Believe, a lettering tattoo running down the upper back beside the spine, with a woman in a white lace top.

Believe script tattoo on upper back

Lettering · Back · Black and grey · Photo

A close view of the upper back of a woman with long wavy brown hair, who wears a white crocheted lace top with a low open back. The word Believe is written in black cursive script beside the spine, with fine, even linework and no visible shading. The image is in soft natural tones with a blurred pale background, and the tattoo is the clear focal point.

Lettering Back Believe Script Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The needle man in Valparaíso charged you a peso and asked you to spell the word twice, because the first time you said it he thought you were ordering a cat. You sat on an upturned barrel in the alley behind the chandlery while the Ada Vane's canvas dried on a line across the way, and you counted the gulls on the roof rather than think about the needle. He worked slowly, lifting the ink into each curl of the B and the long tail of the e, pausing only to wipe the blood with a rag that smelt of pine tar.

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Round the Horn the ship took three weeks to make eighty miles. The cook went under with a fever, and the bosun read the burial service from a prayer book that had lost its last page. You kept your shirt on in the wet, and at night in the fo'c'sle the other men asked what the word was for. You told them it was for a girl in Bristol, which was a lie, and then you told them it was for the ship, which was closer to the truth. Most of them laughed. Pryce, the second mate, only nodded, as if he had heard the same thing from a hundred men who had since gone quiet.

At Gravesend the Ada Vane was paid off, and you walked up from the river with forty shillings and nobody waiting on the quay. In the back room of a boarding house on Narrow Street, a cracked mirror showed you the word over your shoulder, the ink gone soft at the edges like a letter left out in the rain. It was still legible. That, you decided, was proof enough, and you went downstairs to see about some breakfast.