Handwritten script reading You're so brilliant

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows two lines of handwritten script in black ink reading "You're so brilliant. Don't soon forget." against a mottled grey background. The strokes are thin, uneven and cursive, with a casual, personal feel. The image is greyscale and the text fills the centre of the frame with plenty of empty space around it.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nell found the note under the tin of carbon paper on the third morning of the strike, folded twice and flattened by the weight of the ledger. Her father had never been one for words. He wrote the way he counted coal, in short hard strokes that leaned forward as if they were late for something.

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Two lines in pencil gone soft at the edges: You're so brilliant. Don't soon forget. She read it standing at the scullery sink with her hands still wet, and the kettle began its climb toward a whistle while she tried to work out who it was meant for. Tom had sat the scholarship examination in March and was still waiting on the letter. Her father had gone down to the picket line before dawn without his tea, and Nell suspected he had written the note for Tom and left it where she would find it first.

She did what Dad would have done and said nothing. She ironed Tom's good shirt, the one with the collar that never sat flat, and slid the note into the breast pocket where an envelope from Ashworth Grammar would go if it came. Mrs Greaves from next door brought round a tin of broken biscuits and asked after the strike, and Nell answered in the flat voice she used for customers at the chemist's counter.

The post came at eleven. Tom tore it open in the yard with his thumb, read it twice, then stood looking up at the washing as though it had said something to him. Nell took the note from his pocket and held it beside the letter so the two grey sheets sat side by side against the wall. Neither of them said a word, and the pencil did the rest.