Black handwritten script reading There's a blessing in the storm on a white background, shown as a lettering design rather than a tattoo on skin.

Lettering quote: There's a blessing in the storm

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

Black ink handwritten script reads "There's a blessing in the storm." across three staggered lines on a plain white background. The letters have thin, fluid strokes with varied weight and a looping capital T, and the ending full stop is drawn in the same ink. The image is a flat, single-colour composition with no shading and no body part visible.

Lettering Quote Script Storm

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The wind had been at the slates since Tuesday, and by Thursday the whole row of pit cottages on Hollin Lane smelled of wet coal and boiled cabbage. You stood at the back door with your boots in one hand and watched Mrs Dunn's sheets go over the wall like tired ghosts, and you did not go after them.

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Your brother Tom had the early shift. He stamped into the kitchen at half four, black to the eyes, and told you the manager had sent word that the cage would not run until the gale eased. Tom laughed about it, the way men laugh when they are frightened of being thought frightened. 'Lucky sod,' he said, ruffling your hair, and you let him.

Nobody in the village believed in luck that week. Two men went down the Hollin shaft anyway, because the foreman said the cage would hold, and the wind took the headgear and the men with it before noon. Tom was not one of them. He had swapped his shift for a dinner-time football match that never got played, and at seven that evening he came up the lane whistling for the first time all week.

That night you found Miss Pell's blue chalk in your coat pocket, and on the back of the wash-house door, where the slate used to hang, you wrote the line the way she had taught you, looping the T so it hung over the rest. There's a blessing in the storm. Your mother read it twice and said nothing, and then she put the kettle on, which was her way of saying the same thing.