Fine line black tattoo of a city skyline with a spire, a dotted ferris wheel, a clock tower and a small heart, on the inside of a wrist.

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City skyline line tattoo on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A continuous black outline of a city skyline runs across the wrist, including a tall spire, a lattice tower, a dotted ring resembling a ferris wheel, and a clock tower with a small heart beside it. The linework is thin and even, with no shading, and the ink is solid black against pale skin. The design is centred on the wrist and fills the width of the frame against a plain, softly lit background.

Fine line Forearm Skyline Spire Tower Heart City

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The clock on the Quay of Saint Brannoc had said ten past four since the winter my uncle's knees gave out, so it was me who climbed the iron stair with a tin of oil and a bag of brass washers. Nobody in Halsey looked up at that clock anymore. They looked at the spire instead, and at the lattice mast on the hill that sent the football scores out to the boats, and at the fairground wheel that turned all summer over the water even when nobody was riding it.

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Halfway up, the stair opened onto a ledge where the wind came straight off the estuary. I counted the spokes of the great wheel below, sixteen of them, the way Uncle Tomas used to count them for me when I was small enough to sit on his shoulders. The mechanism was stiff but not broken. A pin had worked loose and the minute hand had slipped its collar, which is the kind of fault that looks like a disaster and takes one afternoon to mend.

On the inside of the little service door, under forty years of grease, someone had scratched a heart with two sets of initials. They were not my uncle's. I sat on the cold step for a long time with the oil can in my lap, thinking about the man who had carried tools up here before him, and about how a town keeps its time for people it has stopped mentioning.

I seated the hand, wound the weight, and waited. At six minutes past the hour the bell gave its first clean note, and across the water the wheel began to turn for nobody, slow and certain, the way it always had.