Small black fine line lettering reading mind above matter, with a curved line between the words, on a wrist.

Mind and matter wording on a wrist

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A close photograph of a small tattoo on the wrist of a raised hand, showing the words mind and matter stacked with a thin curved line between them. The lettering uses a slim serif-style typeface in dark ink with fine, even linework. The subject fills the centre of the frame against a dark, blurred background, with the hand and forearm softly lit.

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The slate in the wheelhouse had been wiped so often that the chalk only ever reached the second line. Pell Meadows, who kept the books for the Brackenmouth fleet because nobody else could add without moving their lips, stood in the spray and counted the boxes as they came up the ramp. Forty-one of cod. Nineteen of plaice. A crate of something grey and unnamed that the deckhand swore was monkfish.

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Skipper Harl Gunnery had no patience for sums. He wanted the boat home before the tide turned, and he said so, twice, while the winch groaned and a gull walked the rail as if it owned the boat. Pell kept writing. Net weight over tally, less the fuel, divided by the crew, with a bar drawn between the parts like a line across a chart of the sea.

"You'll get us a figure that doesn't exist," Harl said.

"Then the figure is the thing to argue with, not the boat," Pell said, and felt the cold leave her fingers as she worked it through.

The turn came when the numbers balanced and the shares came out smaller than anyone had hoped. Harl read them over her shoulder, jaw tight, and said nothing for a long time. Then he took the chalk and wrote beneath her sum: the sea does not mind. Pell rubbed it out with her sleeve, but the line she had drawn stayed, neat and unhurried, and the men began to laugh at the pair of them as the harbour lights came up grey through the rain.

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