Black and white photo of a small fine line lotus tattoo with overlapping outlined petals and three dots below it, on the side of the ribs.

Fine line lotus on the side ribs

Fine line · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A small lotus flower is drawn in single black outline, with overlapping petals that form a symmetrical shape. Three small dots sit beneath the base of the flower. The photograph is black and white, with the tattoo centred on smooth skin and fabric folded across the lower right corner.

Fine line Botanical Ribs Lotus Flower Dot Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mags Turnbull had walked the canal path every night for thirty years, carrying her lantern from bridge to bridge, and she had never once seen the water flower. Her mother had. Her mother said it opened only when the city went quiet, its petals folding back the way a shop shutter comes down, and that anyone who found it should leave three coins on the stone beside it and walk home without looking back.

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Then the gasworks went up, and the canal ran black with oil, and the flower came up anyway, pale and stubborn in the muck under Cutter's Bridge. Mags found it on a Tuesday, a little after two, when the rain had stopped and the gulls had given up on the bins. Its petals were layered one over another, like the sides of a boat seen through a window, each edge drawn sharp as wire.

She had no coins. She had three pennies her son had been given for a sweet he never bought, and she set them down in a row on the wet stone. The flower did not move. She waited. Then the water beneath it went still, a single bell rang from the church at the top of the hill, and she understood that she was meant to walk home.

She did not look back. In the morning the petals were gone, and in their place were three small dark rings on the stone, which the council never managed to scrub away.