Woman seen from behind on a sandy beach, with a colourful floral tattoo across her upper back and shoulder.

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Floral back tattoo on a woman at the beach

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A woman in a light patterned bikini stands at the water's edge, seen from behind, with a large tattoo covering her upper back and reaching over one shoulder. The tattoo appears to show flowers and leaves with swirling linework and some shading, in red, green and dark ink. Sun loungers, bags and a water bottle sit in the background on a bright, sunny beach.

Back Shoulder Floral Flower Leaves Swirl Back tattoo Beach

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Past the water tower at Hallow Cross, the stationmaster's wife kept a bed of roses that nobody had planted. They came up each spring between the sleepers, red and dark green, twisting over the bench where the late trains stopped. The porters swore at them for catching their sleeves, and the signalman cut them back every March, but by June they were up over the lamp posts again.

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Old Mabel Usher said the roses were the station's memory. When the line was laid in her grandfather's time, a navvy had been buried under the embankment without a marker, and the ground had never quite settled. Every flower that opened there, she said, carried a little of him up into the light. Nobody believed her until the winter the goods yard flooded and the roses kept blooming through the frost, their leaves still green when the hedges along the cutting had gone to brown.

Then a girl came off the last train in November with a battered carpet bag and no ticket. She asked the porter for the way to the sea, and he told her it was twelve miles and the buses had stopped. She sat on the bench and pulled a single rose from between the sleepers, thorns and all, and wound its stem round her wrist like a bandage. Morning found her gone, the bench swept, and a new spiral of leaves curling up the post where she had sat.

The porters still say the roses grow wherever someone has waited a long time for a train. Nobody has ever found the navvy's name, but the flowers keep coming back, and so, they say, do the people.