Close side view of a hip with a fine black cursive script tattoo reading part of a phrase, partly covered by a dark lace thong.

Cursive script quote on hip

Fine line · Other · Black and grey · Photo

A close side view of a person's hip and lower back wearing a dark lace thong, with a thin black cursive script tattoo above the waistband. The partly legible lettering appears to read 'Because I say', and the linework is fine and even. The image is low-key and warmly lit in browns and blacks, with a navel piercing visible at the left edge.

Fine line Lettering Other Script Quote Handwriting Lace

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nell, the big top came down in Carlisle on Tuesday. A guy rope snapped in the wind off the Solway and the whole canvas folded over the ring like a dust sheet over furniture nobody will sit on again, and Dougie stood there in his good coat saying we should have sold the poles in March. He was right, as he usually is about poles.

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I found your letter in the tin with the spare buttons. You asked me, in your careful hand, why I would never let you take the wire at the Preston fair when you were eleven, and why all I ever gave you was the same two words. I am writing now because I owe you a proper answer, and because the ledger is closed and there is nothing left to be frightened of losing.

The wire was rotten at the join. I could see it from the ground. You were lighter on your feet than any child I had ever seen, and that was exactly what frightened me. A girl who never falls learns to stop looking down, and the ones who stop looking down are the ones the ground is waiting for.

Duchess goes to a farm above Penrith on Friday. The wagon is parked behind the chip shop with the chimney still going, and the kettle is on the hook where you left it. Come home or don't, love, but if you come, leave the wire in the box where it belongs. Because I say so. I have never been more certain of anything.