Small black fine line mountain tattoo on the nape of a woman's neck, with her hair pulled up and a grey top visible.

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Mountain peaks on the nape of the neck

Fine line · Neck · Black and grey · Photo

A small outline of a mountain range with several jagged peaks, drawn in thin black lines with light hatching on the shaded sides. The tattoo sits centred on the back of the neck, photographed from behind with the subject's face not shown. It is black ink only, set against pale skin, a grey t-shirt and a plain light background.

Fine line Neck Mountain Peak Landscape Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You learned to read the slag heaps before you learned your letters. Your father would stand at the top of the lane with his hands in his pockets and say the far ridge was Carn Dhu today, pale with frost on its shoulders, and you would believe him, because from the bottom of the valley nothing looked more like a promise than a mountain. The pit wheel turned under it all day, and the coal came up grey and went out on the carts, and the peaks stayed exactly where they were, which was the only thing in Harrow Bottom that did.

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The spring you turned fourteen, Mr Pryce from the chapel hall came round with a sketchbook and asked the boys to draw what they wanted to be. You drew the ridge, the real one, the way the light cut its edges in the mornings. He held it up to the window and said it was too fine for a pit lad, and you kept it anyway, folded in the lining of your cap. You drew it again on the back of the wage slip, and again on the lid of the tin where your mother kept the matches, and each time the peaks were a little sharper, as if you were trying to get them to stop being so far off.

The last time you climbed toward them was the week before the men went out. You got as far as the old quarry road, where the gorse gave way to bare stone, and you sat with your back against a boundary wall and watched the sun go down behind the summit. Nobody called you back. When you came down the next morning the lane was full of talk and you pretended not to hear it. Years later you still carry that ridge, small and dark, the way you once carried it folded in a cap, and you find you no longer need to walk up to it to know exactly where it stands.