Close up of a small fine line black script tattoo reading good vibes on the side ribs, below a grey crop top.

Good vibes script on the side ribs

Fine line · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A small handwritten script tattoo reading good vibes sits on the skin of the side torso, just below the hem of a grey crop top. The thin, even black linework has a loose, cursive feel with no shading. The ink is set against a soft, neutral background, with the words placed horizontally across the frame.

Fine line Lettering Ribs Word Script Handwriting

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mr Pascoe had lettered signs on the harbour front for thirty-one years and had never been asked for anything so soft. Dolores Penrose wanted the words on the window of her new bait shop, small and low down, in the thin looping hand her mother had used on lunchbox notes. "Good vibes," she said, reading it off a scrap of card as though it were a shopping list. "Just that. Nothing fancy."

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He ruled faint pencil guidelines across the glass, mixed a dab of gold size, and loaded his finest brush until it came to a point. The first attempt went wrong at the g, which swelled into a fat balloon, and the v folded in on itself like a dropped handkerchief. He wiped it away with a rag and a drop of turps while Dolores sat on the step eating a pasty out of its paper bag and telling him about the tide.

The second go was slower. He stopped trying to make the letters look like his own and let them lean the way the card had leaned, loops tight, tails trailing off to nothing. Dolores stopped talking. When he asked whether her mother had written it herself, she shook her head. "Every lunchbox for twenty years. She said you could only stay cross for so long before you ran out of paper."

He finished as the tide turned. From the street the words sat low in the glass, catching the last of the sun. Dolores went inside to check how they read from the other side, and came back out laughing, the way you laugh at a joke you have heard so often you had forgotten it was funny.