Black and white photo of two hands raised, each wrist bearing a small fine line script tattoo that reads love, placed on the wrist.

Matching love script on wrists

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

Two raised hands show a matching pair of small script tattoos, one on each wrist, both reading love. The lettering is thin, even black linework with a flowing handwritten shape. The photograph is greyscale, with soft light on the palms and a dark background, and the wrists sit close together in the centre of the frame.

Fine line Lettering Forearm Love Script Word Matching

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The Ashby girls came to the sign-writer's yard on a Friday in October 1956, the week before the Lancaster train. Hettie Marsh had painted every shop front in Dunmere for thirty years and did not care for requests that came with no drawing. "Just the one word," said the elder, Nell, and she held out her wrists as if they were a board waiting for paint.

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Hettie asked which word. "Love," said Nell. "And her too." Hettie said that was two words in her trade, one for each end of the board. The younger, Ruth, laughed and said it was the same word twice, and Hettie said that was the trouble with it, that a word said twice was never quite the same as it was the first time.

She would not use paint, because paint would not stay on skin, so she took a fine pen nib she kept for gilt and a bottle of black ink from the drawer under the bench. The first loop came easily, the l leaning like a tired man at a bus stop, the v dipped like a swallow. The second she did with her eyes half shut, because she had already made the shape once and her hand knew it.

The girls went north on the Monday with their hands in their coat pockets. Hettie kept the nib dry in its tin. When a postcard came from Lancaster the next spring, with a photograph of two pairs of wrists held up to a window, she pinned it above the bench where the shop names went, the same word on both, and neither of them quite even.