Black flowing script lettering spelling the word Love on a cream background, with a small orange heart at the lower right, shown as a flash design for a lettering tattoo.

Flowing script word Love with orange heart

Lettering · Mixed · Flash

A single word, Love, is drawn in large, flowing black script with swashes on the L and the final e. The linework is smooth and of even weight, with a looping curve forming the body of the letters. A small orange heart sits in the lower right corner, and the rest of the composition is set on a plain cream background.

Lettering Love Script Word Heart Swash

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The ewe in the top field has taken to lambing under the hawthorn, which is foolish of her, and I have spent two mornings with a lantern and a bucket of warm water finding out how foolish. Your father would have had her in the barn by now. He would also have told me the frost was coming three days early, and he would have been right, as he usually was about weather and wrong about nearly everything else.

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The card you left on the mantel slid out of its envelope while I was lighting the range, and the draught carried it across the kitchen flags. I chased it under the table on my knees like a child. Your handwriting has got worse since school, but the sign-off was clear enough: you are not coming home for the sheep sales. Fine. I've kept your chair by the stove. The dog sits in it now and looks at me as though I've insulted him.

On Thursday the post van came up the lane through the snow with a parcel addressed to you, a small flat thing in brown paper. I didn't open it. I'd like to say that was principle. It was only that I knew the label and didn't want to be the one who saw your face when you realised I'd read it first. It's on the windowsill now, where the sun can reach it when the ice on the glass goes soft.

Come at Easter, when the lambs are up and the lane is mud again. Bring whatever you were going to say in that card. I'll put the kettle on. The word at the bottom, with its long looping tail and the little orange heart tucked beside it, is the only thing you've written all year I could read without squinting, so I'm taking it as settled.