Black and grey dotwork drawing of a hamsa hand with an eye at its centre, flanked by two roses, shown as a tattoo design on paper.

Hamsa hand with eye and two roses design

Dotwork · Black and grey · Flash

A pen drawing on paper of a hamsa hand with an ornate mandala pattern, a central eye and paisley-like motifs. Two open roses sit at the lower left and right, with petals outlined in bold black linework. Shading is built from stippling and dots in greys, with no colour ink used.

Dotwork Botanical Hamsa Hand Eye Rose Mandala Paisley

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mrs Okafor came in on a wet Thursday with a brown paper parcel and would not let Tobias unwrap it at the counter. "Back room," she said, "where the light doesn't fall on it." He had been at Halloran's Pawn and Loan for eleven weeks and had learned that nobody asked what a thing was worth until it had been looked at properly.

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In the back room he slid the paper off a hand of hammered brass the size of a dinner plate. Its fingers were splayed, and across the palm ran a mandala of dots and fern-stroke scrolls, with an eye at the centre, painted once and worn to a shadow. Two roses had been riveted to the wrist, their petals gone soft from handling.

"My husband's," she said. "He kept it over the door of our shop in Attercliffe for thirty years. It watched the till, and nobody robbed us once." She folded her gloves together. "I'm not selling it. I'm pledging it. I'll be back for it."

Tobias wrote the ticket: one hamsa, brass, roses, held against eight pounds. He set it on the high shelf beside the wedding rings, and when he switched off the lamp the eye seemed to stay open a moment longer than it should. Eleven years on, the ticket was still in the drawer, its ink gone as grey as the stippling on the palm. Each morning he unlocked the shop, he found the hand turned to face the street, as if it were still waiting for a woman in a wet coat to climb the step.