Black fine line geometric arrow tattoo on the side of the ribs, with a diamond shaped head at the centre and triangular fletching.

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Geometric arrow on the ribs

Fine line · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A small black tattoo of an arrow runs horizontally across the skin. The arrowhead is drawn as an outlined geometric shape with inner concentric lines, and a faceted diamond shape sits along the shaft. The thin, even linework is set against a plain, softly lit background.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Hold that ladle still, boy, and listen, because the stew won't stir itself and neither will I, not at my age. See the arrow scratched on the bulkhead above the flour bin? Mr Halloran cut that in the spring of 1911, when the Marigold lay off Scarborough in fog so thick you couldn't see the bowsprit from the wheel.

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He was a lamp-trimmer's son with neat hands and no sense of humour, and he drew everything in straight lines. The head he made like a folded letter, three nested shapes stepping inward toward a point you could never quite find. The diamond he cut from a broken lens off the old Spurn light and sat it on the shaft so the lamplight would catch it. Thirty-one feathers, one for every storm the ship had weathered, though the owners only ever paid for twenty-six.

When the fog came down, the captain asked which way was north. Halloran set his finger to the arrowhead, squinted at the diamond, and said the arrow pointed home. Nobody believed him, but the men followed it anyway, because it was the only thing aboard drawn without a wobble. Three days later we raised the Humber and the bells of Paull.

Here's the bit they never tell in the pubs. Halloran had drawn that arrow pointing back at the galley stove, on purpose, because the stove was the only warm place he ever wanted to be. Pass me that pan, would you? Mind, it's lukewarm now.