Black line drawing of two birds kissing beneath a small heart, a flash-style tattoo design shown on plain white with no body placement.

Kissing birds beneath a heart

Black and grey · Flash

The drawing shows two stylised birds facing each other in a kiss, with a outlined heart floating above them on a thin dashed line. The linework is bold and uneven, with tapered strokes and no shading, and the wings and tails are drawn as open, pointed shapes. The image is black ink on white with a centred composition.

Bird Heart Love Line drawing

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The wire had sagged all week under two swallows, and Ada Pringle had begun to take it personally. She sat in the signal box at Hebden Cross with her tea going cold beside the key, watching them through the grime on the glass. Each morning they arrived before the first goods train and faced each other along the line, beak to beak, as though the telegraph were a pew and they had come to be married on it.

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Mr Gordon said birds were no business of the company's. Ada tapped her messages anyway, the dots and dashes she had learned at fourteen, sending ARRIVE TUESDAY and HOLD THE 4.10 down a wire that only ever answered with its own hum. She had stopped expecting replies until a boy came up the path one wet Thursday with a buff envelope. It was from Samuel Hirst, who had gone to Halifax three summers before and promised nothing except a letter he never wrote. The telegram said only: WILL YOU TELL ME WHEN THE SWALLOWS GO.

She wrote her answer on the back of a timetable, too cross to be sentimental, and sent it to Halifax without a word of her own. Then she climbed onto the sill, rested the key in her palm, and tapped out one word into the rain for the birds to carry.

The swallows left in the second week of September. In the morning there was only a thin line of wire against the sky and a single black feather caught on the sill, and Ada left the window open anyway.