Close photo of a palm-facing hand with the word darling in fine black script across the middle finger, and a small black cross on a fingertip.

Darling script across a finger

Lettering · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A hand is held palm towards the camera against a plain grey background. The word darling is written in thin black cursive lettering across the middle finger, and a small black cross sits on the fingertip of another finger. The ink is a single dark tone with clean, delicate linework, and the composition is tightly framed on the hand.

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The net came up at four with a tear in it the length of my arm, and Dessie Coyle swore at it in Gaelic, which he only does when he is frightened. I was on the rope with the cold coming up through my boots, and I did what I always do when the wet gets into my head. I looked at my finger.

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I had the word done in the back room of a tattooist's flat above the chippy in Fraserburgh, the autumn after my wife said it to me on the quay and I didn't answer her. Darling, she said, not kindly and not unkindly, the way you'd tell a gull to bugger off. I thought I'd need reminding. The cross on the fingertip is for Ewan Rennie, who went over the side off the Maggie Lind the year I was learning the knots, and who never once in his life called anyone darling.

We got the net in by half five, most of it, enough to pay the fuel. Dessie stood beside me on the wet deck, lit two cigarettes and handed me one without asking. The sun was coming up pale over the water and the ink on my middle finger looked black against the grey. I took the phone out of my oilskin, which is not allowed, typed the word the way it sits on my hand, and sent it before I could think better of it.

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