Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo reading Beloved on the side ribs, with a grey t-shirt lifted beside it.

Beloved script on the ribs

Lettering · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A person lifts a grey-blue t-shirt to show a small black script word, Beloved, on the side of the ribcage. The lettering is thin and slightly slanted with a looped handwritten feel, and a small dot sits to the left of the word. The image is a casual, close-up phone photo with warm lighting and a shallow focus on the tattoo.

Lettering Fine line Ribs Script Word Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nell, the lamp failed again before dawn, and I stood at the gallery rail with the wick cold in my hands and thought of your kitchen, where the kettle is always singing. The supply boat did not come in with the post, so I have only the almanac and the tide tables to keep me honest.

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I have kept the log in my good hand as you taught me. Wind north-west, four; visibility poor; one seal on the lee rock, asleep. Every entry ends the same way, and you would laugh that I still write the date like a man signing a will. The brass is polished, the glass is clean, and the cormorants have started nesting under the tramway where you said they would.

I meant to finish with a joke about the cook, but the pen will not get past your name at the top. So here is the one word I have, written small at the foot of the page where the ink pooled when the foghorn startled my hand. Beloved. I will walk it down to the boat myself on Tuesday, whatever the sea does, and if you read it in the kitchen with the kettle singing, you will know the light is still lit.