Coloured flash drawing of a traditional-style tattoo design with two roses, a gold star, a heart-shaped compact, a heart bell and the words Fighting Evil on banners.

Fighting Evil flash with roses, star and heart charms

Traditional · Colour · Flash

A coloured drawing of a tattoo design on cream paper, arranged as a cluster of motifs: two pink roses with green leaves, a gold five-pointed star inside a pink ring, a heart-shaped compact, a heart-shaped bell and a small pink wing. The words FIGHTING and EVIL run across two banners with outlined lettering. The linework is bold and dark, with flat colour fills in pink, yellow, orange and green and small highlights.

Traditional Rose Star Heart Banner Wing Bell Lettering Leaves

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nell kept the good things in a biscuit tin under the trestle, between the spoons and the buttons nobody wanted. On the Saturday the Okafor boy came down the car park with a shoebox of old tin charms, she tipped them onto a square of green felt and sorted them by shape. A heart with a face pressed into its lid. A heart-shaped bell with a clapper like a dropped tear. A gold star with a red jewel set in its middle. A pink wing no bigger than a fingernail.

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"They don't open," the boy said, and went back for his bike.

They did. The star opened when she thumbed its middle, and the lid of the heart-shaped compact swung up to show a mirror. The mirror showed the market at night, every awning shut, the rain coming in sideways off the sea. Nell snapped it closed. When she looked again the glass gave back only the cheese stall and the hairdryer man's empty chair, and the rain had stopped at the edge of her trestle as if someone had asked it to.

That night she carried the box to the seafront and rang the bell over the railings. Nothing rose out of the water. But the next Saturday the wet weather held off at the car park gate, and the two painted banners above the fishmonger's read the same as they always had, FIGHTING and EVIL, though nobody had touched them since the war. Nell never sold the star. She said it was for the next lot of trouble, and the boy said he would believe it when it came.