Fine line black tattoo of a flock of birds rising above handwritten script on the inner forearm near the wrist.

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Flock of birds and script on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A flock of birds in flight rises diagonally up the inner forearm, with the largest bird near the top and smaller birds trailing toward the wrist. Below them, a line of cursive script reads with brave wings she flies. The birds are solid silhouettes and the script is thin, with the design in black ink on a plain, softly lit background.

Fine line Forearm Bird Flock Flight Script text Wing

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The hall still smelled of floor polish and the orange squash we drank at fourteen, and Carol Fenwick had cornered me by the trophy cabinet before I'd got my coat off. She held my elbow as if I might bolt. 'You're not going to believe who sent a card.'

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Dilys Marr had left Hexham Comprehensive in 1989 with a biology prize and a suitcase tied shut with string. Nobody heard from her after that except for one postcard, which Carol had kept in her handbag for thirty years: a photograph of starlings over Blackpool pier, the sky scribbled dark with them. On the back, in Dilys's round, careless hand, were the words Mrs Ashdown used to chalk above the door every September, the ones none of us ever bothered to look up. With brave wings she flies.

I read it twice, then gave the card back, because my hands had started doing something foolish. Mrs Ashdown had taken the line from a hymn book, she told us, and Dilys had been the only one who asked which hymn. Nobody ever answered her. Carol said the card had come in March with no return address, a postmark from Inverness, and that it probably meant nothing at all.

I went out to the car park for air. Above the sports field a flock of starlings lifted off the goalposts all at once, as though someone had called a name, and I started counting them the way Dilys used to in double maths. I got to nineteen, then they bent east over the bungalows and I lost them, which felt about right for a Saturday night in Hexham. I did not go back in to ask Carol for the address.