Fine line tattoo of a steaming coffee cup on a saucer, flanked by laurel sprigs and a handwritten phrase, on the upper chest.

Coffee cup and laurel sprigs on the chest

Fine line · Chest · Black and grey · Photo

A fine line drawing of a steaming coffee cup on a saucer sits centrally, with a small laurel sprig on each side. Below it, a short handwritten phrase about delicious coffee runs in black lettering, with a thin underline beneath the last words. The tattoo is black ink only, shown in a close crop of the upper chest above a plaid shirt.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The snow had closed the Hollin Gap at four, and by seven the only light on the road was the orange glow of the gritter's cab and the little café at the top of the pass, where Mrs Abernethy kept the urn on even when nobody came. I came up the hill with three stranded coach drivers in the back and a sack of salt I didn't need, because I had promised her a bag of beans from the depot, and she had never once let a promise go unpaid.

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She met me at the door with a cup already in her hand, steam curling off it as if it was showing off. "Taste that," she said. "Go on. Tell me it's not the best thing you've had all week."

It was, and I told her so. She took the empty cup back and turned it upside down on its saucer, the way she did when she wanted you to know a thing was settled. Then she pulled a biro from behind her ear and wrote something on the paper napkin under the sugar bowl, something about the coffee and how much she loved it, and underlined the last words twice so hard the pen tore the paper.

The coach drivers got their hot chocolate. The napkin got folded into my glovebox, where it still is. Every January, when the pass shuts, I open it at the first bend, and I can hear the urn ticking behind her voice.

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