Black and grey fine line script reading Memento Mori across the ribs in a black and white photo.

Memento Mori script on a rib cage

Fine line · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo is the words Memento Mori written in a flowing cursive script in black ink across the side of the torso. The linework is thin and even, with solid black strokes and no shading. The black and white photograph is taken close up, with a dark top at the upper edge framing the skin.

Fine line Lettering Ribs Script Lettering Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Ines, the clock in the back room of the shop has stopped again, so I am writing this by the light of the lamp you left behind when you went north. Mr Okafor from the bookbinders came in this morning wanting his ledger returned, and I told him it was in the drawer under the scissors, which it was, though I had to look twice before I found it. You would have laughed. I have been finding things in that drawer for three weeks now, your pencils, a receipt for thread from March, the little brass key nobody has ever known the purpose of.

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The rain has not let up since Tuesday. The stallholders along Pennington Row have started calling it the long wet, as if it were a relative come to stay. Mrs Hale sold her last pot of marmalade yesterday and asked me to tell you she is sorry about the lid. I said you would not mind. You always said a jar was only ever a jar until someone opened it.

I keep thinking of what you said on the last morning, standing by the window with your coat half on, that we should write the words down before we forget how we meant them. So I have. Remember the time is short, and so is the tea, and so is the light in November. Keep the lamp burning until I come up on the train. I will bring the brass key, and we can finally find out what it opens.