Close-up of a small fine-line tattoo of latitude and longitude coordinates in black script on the side of the ribs, below a blue bikini strap.

Coordinates in fine script on the ribs

Fine line · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A close-up photograph of a small tattoo reading 41.68°N 70.20°W in thin black script, set in a single horizontal line on the side of the torso. The linework is fine and even, with no shading, and the skin around it shows slight redness, suggesting the tattoo may be recently healed. The composition crops to the torso against a blue bikini strap, with a green wall, a tattoo chair and a black and white checkered floor in the background.

Fine line Ribs Coordinates Number Script Text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The fog had come in off the sound at dusk and sat on the water like wet wool, so when the call came through at ten past two, Marjorie Pell had to read the numbers back twice before she trusted them. The skipper of the Gannet Rose said he was drifting on the west side of the bar with a fouled prop and no way to tell which way the tide had him.

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She pulled the chart down from the wall of the shore station, a sheet gone soft at the folds from years of being rolled and unrolled. Her pencil found the grid lines. Forty-one degrees and sixty-eight hundredths north, seventy degrees and twenty hundredths west. Her father used to say the sea never wrote anything down, so you had to write it yourself, in pencil, in the margin, where the next person could rub it out if you were wrong.

'Stay on that heading and cut the engine,' she told him. 'Ring the bell every minute. I'll have a boat with a light at the mouth of the channel in twelve.' He asked her how she knew where he was. She said she had put him there herself, and that was the truth, because a number on a page had brought him in before and it would again.

At half past two the bell came faintly through the static, then a shout, then the grind of an outboard. She wrote the time in the log, under the coordinates, and then, because nobody would check, she wrote the word arrived and underlined it twice.