Close photo of a fine line black script tattoo running along a person's forearm, with denim shorts and a white top in the background.

Fine line script on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A thin black cursive script runs diagonally along the forearm, with the letters partly visible and the wording not clearly legible. The linework is fine and even, with solid black ink and no shading, set against warm skin tones. The background shows light blue denim shorts and a white ribbed top, with the cropped frame centred on the arm.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Marjorie, the kettle in the back room has finally given up, so I am writing this on the back of a delivery docket while the tea goes cold beside me. You will think it foolish that I have kept your sister's old fountain pen all these years, but it was the only thing of hers that still wrote properly, and I could not bring myself to throw it out with the jumble. Yesterday I found the notebook she used for the church accounts, the one with the water stain shaped like Ireland. Her handwriting slants the way yours does when you are cross, and I sat there a good hour trying to read the line she had underlined twice near the back.

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It was only a few words, half rubbed away where someone had leaned on the page. I could not make out the whole of it, and I suppose that is the trouble with most things people leave behind. You spend years assuming you will be told the rest later, over a pot of tea, and then the tea goes cold and the sentence stops.

I am posting this with the pen tucked inside the envelope, so you can try your own luck with the notebook when you come up at Easter. Bring your spectacles. If you can finish the line, write it on the inside of my wrist in that ink you bought from the stationer's on Carver Street, and I will know you have got it right.

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