Two photos of a fine line black script lettering tattoo, shown on the inner forearm and on the upper back near the neck.

Fine line script tattoo on forearm and upper back

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo is a thin, single-line script that reads as a name with a small capital, shown in two photographs. The left photo shows it on the inner forearm beside a gold bracelet and the right shows it across the upper back below the hairline. The ink is solid black with no shading, and the images have a neutral, bright background.

Fine line Lettering Forearm Back Script Lettering Handwriting Name

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tomas, the ink in the pot has gone to a skin of grey, so forgive the thinness of this hand. Father has sold the second boat to the Morrow brothers for two sacks of salt and a promise, and I have not argued, because he has stopped asking where you are. Each evening he walks to the end of the mole and looks at the water as though it owes him a reply.

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Mother's old quill is still in the box under the loom. I have been practising your name on the back of the tide tables, the way you taught me, letter by letter, pulling the long tail of the M down until it nearly touches the next word. My hand is better than yours ever was. Do not tell the priest I said so.

Last week a fishwife came up from Scarrow with a shell and a story. She said a sailor with your ring on his thumb had drowned off the western reef and been buried in the sand with a blue stone under his tongue. I did not believe her, and I sent her away with bread. But this morning I found in the box a scrap of paper in your hand that I had never seen, folded small, with only one word on it: come.

I am coming, then. I have written that word out a hundred times and it looks more like a promise every time. If the wind holds, the Morrow boat will carry me as far as the headland. Light a fire on the rock so I can read the way.