Black, uneven hand-drawn block lettering on a lower leg reads 'Don't let them see you're afraid', in a rough lettering style on the calf.

'Don't let them see you're afraid' lettering on a calf

Lettering · Calf · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a tattoo on a person's lower leg, with the words 'Don't let them see you're afraid' written across four lines in black ink. The letters are irregular, with uneven strokes, angled forms and a hand-drawn quality. The text fills most of the frame against plain skin, with a soft, slightly warm light and a dark background at the right edge.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The oven door sticks at quarter to five, the way it has since Dad fitted the new seal and swore it would fix everything. I put my shoulder against it and the tray of bloomers slides out, paler on one side than the other. Mrs Okafor from the flats comes in at six for her split tin, and she will notice. Everybody notices with bread.

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Dad's handwriting was all over the back room. Rotas, flour orders, the price of yeast, and above the proving cupboard the sentence he had painted on a strip of cardboard in black marker that bled into the grain. He said it to me the first morning I came in with my hands shaking, when the lorry from the mill was two hours late and the hopper sat empty. I thought he meant the customers. Later I understood he meant the dough, the oven, the man from the council with his clipboard and his small, polite smile.

The lorry came at last, and by half five the whole place smelt the way it should. I kept my hands busy, scoring the batch with the razor and talking to the radio about nothing. When the first light found the window I peeled the cardboard off the cupboard, meaning to bin it, and found the marker had left a ghost of the letters on the tiles behind it.

I put it back up with two drawing pins. The shutters went up at seven. Mrs Okafor read the sentence, tapped the counter twice, and asked for the split tin, still warm, with a face that said she had read it too.