Small black fine line tattoo of a filled dot beside an open circle on the inside of a forearm, with a white bead bracelet nearby.

Filled dot and open circle on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A small tattoo of a solid black dot next to an outlined circle sits on the inner forearm. The dot is filled in with solid black ink, while the circle is a thin single line. The plain skin and light background keep the focus on the minimal design.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The last goods train cleared Ardwick at twenty past eleven, and I stood under the signal gantry until its tail lamp had gone round the bend. Then I came back to the box, banked the stove and did what you asked in your last letter: I chalked the code on the slate.

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Do you remember the codes we made up behind the chapel wall when we were boys? A solid dot meant a thing done, an open ring meant a thing still owed. Mother thought we were daft. Since you sailed for Montreal I have added a fresh dot beside the ring every night, one for each day you have been gone, and I have never once rubbed the ring out.

Tonight Tom came up from the sorting office with a telegram just before the last train. I read it by the lamp. Mother is sitting up now and asking for the kettle, and the doctor says she will see the spring. I stood there a long while, then I took the chalk and filled the ring in solid, so the slate showed two black dots and nothing owed.

It looks wrong, somehow, like a full stop put in the middle of a sentence. Write to me when you can and tell me what the next mark should be. I am not going to make it up for you. The chalk is by the door, and the stove is still warm.

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