Black lettering tattoo of a Greek word in a flowing script on the inner wrist, with a healed scar visible below it.

Greek script word on inner wrist

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a single line of Greek script tattooed diagonally across the inner wrist, shown with the palm side of the hand visible above it. The letters are drawn in a flowing, slightly slanted script with fine black outlines and solid black fill. The background is a pale blue surface and a dark object at the edge of the frame, and a healed scar runs across the wrist below the tattoo.

Lettering Forearm Word Script lettering Wrist

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Old Mitsos kept the ledger for the whole village of Kastri, and he kept it in pencil, because ink, he said, made a man too sure of himself. Every Saturday the farmers climbed the stairs above the bakery with their debts folded in their hands like wet cloth, and every Saturday he wrote their sums down in a neat slope of figures and told them what they owed the shop, the mill and the priest.

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His grandson Lambros, nine that summer, liked to sit under the table and count the nails in the floorboards. He noticed that when a debt was finally paid, Mitsos never crossed it out. He licked the pencil, leaned close, and wrote one word beside the figure, slanting it the way swallows dip over the threshing floor. Tetelestai. When Lambros asked what it meant, his grandfather said, "It is finished. The thing is done, and nobody has to carry it up the hill again."

One October a widow named Eleni came in with a sum she had never been able to pay, the price of her husband's coffin, and laid three coins on the table. Mitsos looked at them for a long time. Then he wrote the word beside her name and, to Lambros's surprise, wrote it again beside his own.

"But you never owed anybody," the boy said. Mitsos blew the dust from the page. "Everybody owes something. I just like to see it finished, once in a while, so I remember it can be done."