Back of a woman's neck showing the words No Day But Today in black script lettering tattooed across the nape.

No Day But Today script on the neck

Lettering · Neck · Black and grey · Photo

The photograph shows the back of a person's neck and upper shoulders, with hair pulled up and one hand visible at the right edge. The phrase No Day But Today is written in a black italic script, with fine, even linework and solid ink. The plain, neutral background and soft lighting keep the focus on the lettering, which sits centred across the nape.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The fair came to Ashby Common the week the river rose, and with it came Orla Vance and her painted caravan. Above the door she had lettered one word, TODAY, and nobody in the village thought to ask why. They paid their pennies to hear their palms read and came out looking as though they had been handed a bill they could not refuse.

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Her son Tobias sold toffee apples from a tray at the gate and counted everyone who went in. A carter's girl called Nell came one evening with a shilling wrapped in a handkerchief. Her father had been talking of selling the horses and walking to Bristol for work, and she wanted to know whether he would come home.

Orla did not look at the cards. She turned the shilling over, then pointed past the tent to where the sun was going down red over the water. "Tomorrow is a rumour," she said. "Your father has this afternoon, and you have the walk home. That is the whole of it. There is no day but today, so go and spend it on him."

Nell ran all the way to the carter's yard. Her father was loading the cart by lantern light, and he set down the reins to hear her out. He stayed, and in the morning they went to the fair together, where the toffee apples were sticky and the caravan door stood open. Tobias said his mother repainted the word every dawn, because the river had already taken yesterday's.