Crossed revolvers with flowers

Black and grey · Flash

The design shows two revolvers angled towards each other, their barrels pointing outwards and their grips meeting above a central bouquet. The bouquet has rounded blossoms, leaves and curling stems, with thin swirling lines and bold tapering shapes framing the lower half. The drawing uses solid black outlines with grey shading on the gun bodies and petals, set against a plain white background.

Revolver Pistol Flower Blossom Leaves Swirl

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mercy kept the two revolvers on the pantry door for eleven years after her husband died, and not one of the village men thought to ask what they were for. Joseph had bought them off a drover at Skipton fair, long-barrelled and heavy, and he polished them every Sunday with a rag and a tin of oil, but he never once loaded them. When his chest gave out one February, they stayed where he had hung them, going dull as old spoons.

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In the spring Mercy went to the pantry for the seed tin and found the barrels had gone green at the mouths. She packed them with garden earth from the bed by the wall, pressed in cornflower seed and a pinch of nasturtium, and set them to the window where the sun came in sideways. By June the muzzles were crowded with blue and orange, and the stems curled out over the grips like they were leaning to hear something.

Young Abel Crabtree came up the lane that autumn asking for the guns. His father had a fox in the hen house and wanted them for the night. Mercy told him the barrels were full of earth now and he would have to take it up with the bees. He laughed, then looked at the petals and stopped laughing, and went home with a bunch of stems in his fist instead.

The frost came early that year. The revolvers hung on the pantry door with their mouths full of dried lupin, and nobody in Malham asked to borrow them again.