Black script lettering reading fearless, with a long hairline swash running out from the word, shown as a flash design on a white background.

Fearless script with a swash line

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows the word fearless written in a joined, cursive script in black ink on a plain white background. A single thin line extends to the left and right from the lettering, forming a flowing underline. The linework is smooth and even, with solid black strokes and no shading or colour.

Lettering Fine line Fearless Script Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down before the kettle goes, and leave that rope alone, it's been tied since your grandad's time. You want the flood story or the one about the pike? The flood, then.

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The winter the Severn came over the towpath at Upton, my mother was boat-bound with three of us and a load of coal, and the lock gates wouldn't hold. Nobody would take a barge past the weir that week. Her cabin side had a word painted on it, flaking, her own father's work, and every morning she ran her thumb along the first letter like it was a rail. Fearless, it said. Not a promise, she used to say. A direction.

So she took us down on the third morning, the water brown and quick as a runaway dog. The rudder went slack under her hands at the willows, and I thought we were finished. She didn't shout. She leaned on the tiller and let the current carry the long slow curve of us, the way your eye follows a line of writing, down and out and round, until the water flattened and we slid into the still pool below the mill.

Mind, I can't tell you what became of the rope or the coal. Some things you don't need to know. What I know is that current, and it's still there in the paint, if you look close, where the word runs off the end of the boat and keeps on going.