Small black fine-line tattoo of an outlined heart with a semicolon beside it, placed on the ankle.

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Heart and semicolon on an ankle

Fine line · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A small outlined heart sits on the side of an ankle, with a semicolon mark placed beside its lower right edge. The linework is thin, solid black and uniform, with no shading. The tattoo is centred on pale skin, with fabric at the top left and red-painted toes at the bottom right.

Fine line Ankle Heart Semicolon Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

On Scarrow Rock the log was kept in pencil, because ink froze in the lamp room from November until March. Every dusk Owen Pell wrote the same things: wind from the west, visibility four miles, lamp lit at six minutes past. His mother had taught him that a log must never have a gap, not even on a bad night, so when the fog came in thick as wet wool he wrote, Lamp lit. Fog. Cannot see the boats, and then he stopped with the pencil above the page.

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The Mary Kettle had gone out at noon for the late herring and was not back. Owen could hear the foghorn on the mainland side answering nothing. He could not leave the lamp. The great lens had to turn, and a turning lens needed a man at the clockwork every quarter hour, so he kept climbing the iron stair, winding, and coming down to the desk to write a little more. By midnight the page was crowded with short lines, each one cut off where he had been called away.

His grandfather had told him that the keepers of the old rock used a small mark for an unfinished sentence, a dot set over a comma, to say the thought was not ended, only waiting. Owen made that mark at the foot of each broken line. He did not know if it was proper. It seemed honest. At three the sweep of the light caught oars in the murk, and then a voice, and then the Mary Kettle's red hull nosing into the cove below.

In the morning he finished the entry properly. Mary Kettle home, all hands. He drew a small heart beside the last of the marks, the way his mother used to draw one on the bread bin when a loaf had come out well, and closed the book. The sea went on turning over the rocks below, and the light went on turning above it.