Close-up of a fine line script tattoo reading faithfully along the inner forearm, shown in black ink on pale skin.

Faithfully script on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A single word, faithfully, is written in a thin, flowing cursive script that rises diagonally across the forearm. The linework is even and delicate, with no shading, so the letters stand out as clean black lines against the skin. The image is black and white, and the tight crop keeps the focus on the lettering.

Fine line Lettering Forearm Word Script

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The ink in my pen has run dry, so I am writing this in pencil, which you always said looked like a child's homework. The guard at the Lenkov crossing took the pen at the barrier, unscrewed the cap as if it might hide something, and handed it back empty. There was nothing to do but keep going with a stub of graphite and the back of a customs form.

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They let me keep the letters, though. He read every one, turning each page over as if the real words might be on the other side, then stamped them and said, in English he had learned from films, that love was a permitted item. I laughed. He did not. I think that was the moment I understood how far we had come from the kitchen on Mill Lane.

Here is what I have decided. The tram still runs from the station to the square, the baker still puts cinnamon in the loaves when it turns cold, and the lamp outside your mother's gate still flickers for a full minute before it catches. On Thursday I will be on the eight o'clock train with the green coat you bought me and the photograph of the sea wall. If the officer asks what I have to declare, I will tell him nothing, and it will be the truth.

I have left room at the bottom of this page, where the signature goes, because that is the part people read twice. I have written the one word there, and I have underlined it twice in pencil so it will not fade before you reach it. Faithfully, Anna.