Fine line script word hope with a small anchor beneath it, tattooed on the inner wrist and forearm.

Hope script with anchor on wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo reads 'hope' in a thin, flowing script, with a small anchor drawn below the final letters. The linework is delicate and even, with no shading, and the ink appears pale against the skin. The photograph is taken from above, showing the hand raised and the inner wrist in the centre of the frame.

Fine line Lettering Forearm Hope Script Anchor Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The tide had turned twice since the last boat came in, and Maud had stopped counting the days on the harbour wall. Her brother's letters came folded into quarters, the paper soft as cloth from being carried in a coat pocket. This one was short. The Marigold had been laid up at Tarbert for the winter, and the crew had gone home to their families in the north.

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She read it again by the lamp in the net loft, where the smell of tar and wet rope never quite left the air. At the bottom he had written a single word, pressed so hard the nib had torn the page, and beneath it he had drawn a small anchor, the flukes no bigger than a fingernail. He used to draw them on the edges of her school atlas when they were children, always the same crooked shape, as if he had learned it from a drunk sailor and never bothered to correct it.

In the morning she walked out to the end of the pier with the letter in her pocket and the wind pulling at her hair. A trawler was coming in slow past the breakwater, low in the water, and she stood there until she could see the men on her deck. None of them was him. She stayed anyway, one hand flat against her wrist where the cold had got into the bone, and waited for the next one.