Black fine line tattoos of a mandala-filled heart on the side of the ribs and an ornate yin yang on the upper arm.

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Mandala heart and yin yang tattoos

Fine line · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

Two black tattoos are shown on bare skin. A heart made of mandala and paisley-style motifs sits on the side of the torso, while a yin yang with intricate patterned linework fills one half of the circle on the upper arm. The thin, even outlines and fine dotted detail are set against soft, natural skin tones, with a hand holding up a shirt at the top left of the frame.

Fine line Ribs Upper arm Heart Mandala Yin yang Paisley Pattern

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Now mind, you'll want the knife sharp before we start, because grafting is the part that goes wrong if you're lazy with it. Sit there on the cider crate. That's it. The old orchard above Bramley Lane had two trees growing from one stock, and nobody in the village could explain it, not even Ruth Pennock, who'd been picking there since she was a girl in pinafores.

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The trick was done by Aled Morgan the summer his wife went into hospital in Hereford and didn't come home for six weeks. He had a cutting from her mother's Cox and a cutting from a sour old Bramley nobody wanted, and he bound them together with raffia and a strip of her blue wool. Every evening he walked up the rows with a jam jar of water and a clean blade, and every evening he came down with the same report: it's taking, it's taking.

When she came home they walked up together in the last light of August. One half of the tree had gone ruddy and the other stayed pale as milk, and the fruit hung in a neat ring, like something drawn with a compass. Aled put a finger on the seam where the two grains met. "Half of you, half of me," he said, which was daft, and she laughed at him, which was the point.