Fine line black tattoo of a feather threaded on a chain bracelet across the inner wrist.

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Feather and chain bracelet on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A small tattoo of a feather shown on the inner wrist, with a thin chain-style bracelet line running beneath it and across the skin. The feather and chain are drawn in fine black linework with light shading on the feather's barbs and quill. The pale skin and dark fabric background give the tattoo strong contrast and a simple, minimal composition.

Fine line Forearm Hand Feather Chain Bracelet Wrist

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit yourself down on that bench, the one with the iron legs, before the wind finds you. No, the 6:40 isn't coming. It hasn't come since the summer the signal box burned, and nobody has bothered to tell the timetable. So I'll tell you about Dora Penhallow instead, who kept the lost property office at Marlow Road for thirty-one years and never once lost a thing herself.

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She had a drawer, mind, a long brass-handled drawer under the counter, and into it went everything the trains gave back. Gloves. A glass eye, which a man came for a fortnight later with a mighty apology. A child's shoe, a dog lead, a wedding ring wrapped in a bus ticket. And one afternoon in October, a single grey feather, caught in the coupling of the last carriage of the Exeter stopper, with a length of fine silver chain still tangled through its quill.

Nobody claimed it. Dora turned it over under the lamp for a long while, then did a thing the railway would never have allowed. She threaded the chain through the loop of the feather and fastened it round her own wrist, so that the feather lay across the skin like a bracelet, and went back to stamping forms.

The thing about a feather, see, is it only ever turns up where something has been moving fast. She wore it for thirty-one years. When she retired, she left the drawer empty and the key on its hook, and the feather, still on its chain, went with her on the 6:40 to somewhere nobody at Marlow Road could name. Ask me how I know, and I'll tell you it was the last thing she ever lost, and the only thing she meant to.