Red line drawing of a heart with a sprig of three flowers and a black script quote beneath, a flash design with no visible body placement.

Heart with flower sprig and script quote

Botanical · Colour · Flash

A single curved red line forms an open heart, with a diagonal sprig of three small five-petalled flowers running down from its right side. A black script quote sits in the lower left corner, with a short attribution beneath it. The design uses flat solid red shapes and a clean white background with no shading.

Botanical Lettering Heart Flower Quote Script Sprig

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Nan, the pit siren went at six again this morning and I was already awake, sat at the table with the kettle cold because I'd forgotten to light the gas. Your letter came Tuesday. I read it four times at the window, then folded it into the tin with Grandad's old pay slips, because that's where things go round here that we mean to keep.

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You ask whether I've gone soft on Tom Jessop from the lamp room. I haven't gone soft, I've gone careful, which is worse. Mrs Hollis's boy went down with the deputy in March and she still sets a place for him on Sundays. Every time Tom whistles up the back lane I think of her table and I shut the door a bit faster than I should.

Yesterday I took a sprig from the pink bush that grows through the chapel yard wall and pressed it between the pages of your recipe book, the one with the burnt corner. Dad used to say the thing you're frightened to hold is the thing you'll miss most once it's gone. I didn't believe him when I was twelve. I think I do now, though I'd rather not.

So I've asked Tom to tea on Saturday. The good cups are out on the dresser and I've polished every one. If he says no I'll still have had the cups out, and that's something. Write back soon and tell me I'm daft. Your loving sister, Nell.