Small black fine line tattoo of two beamed music notes on the inner ear, with a pearl stud earring below.

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Music note tattoo inside an ear

Fine line · Other · Black and grey · Photo

A close-up of an ear showing a small tattoo of two beamed eighth notes in black ink, positioned on the inner rim of the ear. The linework is thin and clean with solid black filled note heads and stems. The rest of the image is in natural skin tones with dark hair at the edge of the frame and a pale pearl stud earring in the lobe.

Fine line Other Music note

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The night the snow shut the upper pass, a lorry from the Varsk side came up to my booth with its wipers still going, and the driver wound his window down before I'd asked him to. A paper bag of pastries sat on the dashboard and a cassette case was taped to the sun visor. I asked him what he was carrying. He said mostly sheet music, and I believed him, because nobody lies about paper in a language the officer can't read.

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He was taking a dead cellist's scores to her nephew in Leeds, he said, a crate of them under a tarpaulin. I lifted the top folder and turned pages under my torch while the heater ticked. Most of it was dense and smudged with pencil, but on one sheet someone had written a small phrase in the margin: two eighth notes joined by a beam, one high, one low, and beside them, in careful capitals, BREATHE HERE. I asked the driver to hum it. He hummed two notes, and the second one dropped like a step down a staircase in the dark.

My father used to whistle that exact fall while he shaved, every morning, long after he had any reason to be cheerful. He taught it to me on a tin whistle before his posting took him east, and it was the last thing I heard him play. I had not thought of it in years, and I stood there in the cold with the stamp in my hand longer than the rules allow.

I stamped his papers and handed them back. "Breathe there," I told him, and he looked at me as though I'd said something in another language, then laughed and let the clutch out. The barrier rose, and his tail lights slid off down the white road towards Leeds.