Two matching fine line black and grey key tattoos on the inner wrists of two people, one with a hand raised and one with a fist clenched.

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Matching key tattoos on wrists

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

Two small key tattoos sit on the inner wrists of two people, one shown beside the other. Each key has fine black linework with grey shading, with an ornate bow and a simple stepped bit. The photograph is taken close up with a warm, slightly faded tone, and the keys are placed at the same angle and height on each wrist.

Fine line Forearm Key Matching tattoo Wrist

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The caretaker has finally let me into the Marine Ballroom, though he warned me the boards have not been swept since the spring, and I am writing this on the edge of the stage with dust rising round my shoes like flour. The glitter ball still hangs over the floor, dull as a pewter spoon, and the chairs are stacked against the wall the way we left them the night the band packed up for good.

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Your key still fits the side door, the one with the bow worn smooth by all our thumbs. Mine turns it too, which Mr Oakes says cannot be right for two locks cut from one blank, but he never had to climb the fire escape with you at fourteen, laughing so hard you nearly dropped the pair of us into the bins. We swore we would never need a spare, that the two of us would always be the other's way in.

They are selling the hall to a firm that wants to make flats, and the men with the clipboards have measured everything except the sprung floor, which they say will go for firewood. I came anyway, because it was the first Saturday of the month and that was our night, and because I wanted to see if I could still count the steps to the cloakroom in the dark. I could. Nobody had moved them.

I have left my key in the lock on the inside, turned to the open position, so whoever comes next will find the door already unlocked. You always said a key is only a promise to come back, and I am tired of making promises I cannot keep. Come and find it if you want it. I will leave the light on in the foyer.