Black and grey photo of a person's upper back and shoulder with a small colour monarch butterfly tattoo and black script lettering reading Love me for who i am.

Monarch butterfly and script on the upper back

Lettering · Back · Mixed · Photo

A small, shaded monarch butterfly in orange, yellow and red sits near the shoulder blade, with black script lettering beneath it reading Love me for who i am. The butterfly has soft shading and dark outlines on its wings, while the lettering is a fine, flowing black script. The photograph is black and white apart from the coloured butterfly, with a hoop earring and hair visible at the top left of the frame.

Lettering Back Butterfly Monarch butterfly Script text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dilys had the ovens lit by half four, and the flour in the bins was still cold enough to smell of nothing. Tomasz stood at the bench with his sleeves rolled past the elbow, scoring a row of tins with a razor that kept skidding off the skin of the dough.

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"Again," she said, not looking up from the ledger. "You're cutting it like you're angry at it." He tried once more. The blade opened a clean slit, but his hand had gone stiff, and the loaf split in a crooked line that looked more like a tear than a wing. He swore under his breath and reached for the next tin.

Her late husband had written the recipe on the back of a delivery docket and pinned it above the proving cabinet with a drawing pin that had never been moved. Under the method, in pencil, he had added a line that had nothing to do with flour: Let it rise in its own time. Tomasz had read it a hundred times and still assumed it was a joke about yeast.

By six the first trays came out, the crusts a deep marigold where the light had not yet reached the window. Dilys lifted one, tapped its base, and set it on the rack beside the others. The lad's loaf had a split like a torn orange wing, uneven and bright in the lamplight. She broke the heel off, handed it to him, and said it was the best thing he had made all month.