Black ink line drawing of a pair of lips showing teeth, with GRRL POWER written across the lower lip above a clenched fist, in a hand-drawn style.

Lips and fist with GRRL POWER text

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A hand-drawn design of open lips showing a row of teeth, with the words GRRL POWER written across the lower lip. A clenched fist with hatched shading sits beneath the lips. The linework is black on cream paper, using dense hatching and cross-hatching for shadow.

Lip Teeth Fist Hand Text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mo, the photocopier at the library has finally died, so I'm writing this by hand on the back of a council form. You won't believe what Carol did. She drew the lips on the master sheet in correction fluid and biro, the whole mouth open, every tooth done with those tiny hatched lines, and then wrote the words across the bottom lip as if she was daring it to say something back. We spent Thursday night in the back room above the chippy, Carol with her cigarette balanced on an ashtray shaped like a shoe, me cutting stencils with the craft knife Dad gave me for my birthday.

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Sheila from the Working Men's Club came up the stairs to ask what the racket was. Carol held up the master and said, It's a fist, love. Sheila said, It looks like a mouth. Carol said, Same thing, if you're loud enough. I laughed so hard I got ink on my good trousers.

We ran off two hundred copies on the duplicator Dad had borrowed from the bank, which was grand until the third run, when the drum jammed and every fist came out with a black thumb. We stuck the first batch up outside the bus station anyway. By the next morning someone had already written underneath in marker, Who asked you. Carol took a pen and added, You did, and now we're even.

I'm bringing you a bundle on Sunday. Keep one for Mam, though don't tell her what it says. She'll only say I'm too loud for this town, and I'll tell her the town was quiet enough to start with. Love, Dani