Black and grey tattoo sleeve on the upper arm and forearm of a person photographed from behind in a black t-shirt.

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Black and grey tattoo sleeve seen from behind

Upper arm · Black and grey · Photo

A black and white photograph of a person seen from behind, with short cropped hair and a plain black t-shirt. The tattoo on the visible arm covers the upper arm and extends down towards the elbow, with dark shaded floral and leaf elements. The plain backdrop keeps the focus on the arm.

Upper arm Forearm Floral Leaves Sleeve

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The lorry from the Kent nurseries was three hours late, so Ruth Calloway unloaded the night stock herself under the sodium lamps at Smithfield, stacking crates of black dahlias and bare ivy on the wet cobbles. The dahlias were the colour of a bruise going off. Nobody bought them in daylight. Night suited them, and by the same reasoning it suited her.

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At ten past four a man stopped at the stall with his hands jammed in his coat pockets and asked for something that would live in a tin on a windowsill with no sun. He didn't say who the tin was for, and Ruth didn't ask. She reached past the cheap ferns to the back shelf, where the one with fronds curling inwards like a closed fist had been sitting for two winters. She wrapped its roots in damp yesterday's paper and tied the bundle with garden twine. He tried to pay with a folded twenty. She pushed it back across the wood and said the fern had waited long enough for someone to want it, which was true of most things on that shelf.

By half five the arches were turning grey and the first van horns were sounding up Charterhouse Street. Ruth swept the petals into a dustpan, counted what was left, and found a clean square in the dust where the fern had stood. She left it there and let the morning light find it first.