Black fine line script reading no fear tattooed across the top of a woman's foot, with red painted toenails, resting on a dark leather surface.

No fear script tattoo on a foot

Fine line · Other · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a foot resting on a dark leather surface, with the words no fear written in thin black cursive script across the top of the foot towards the toes. The linework is fine and even, with a slightly uneven hand-lettered flow and a long tail on the f. The skin tone is warm and the toenails are painted red, with a soft blurred background.

Fine line Lettering Other Script Word Foot

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Nell, the ferry is cancelled again, so I am writing this on the back of a fishmonger's bill while the wind tries to take the page off the table. Your father says I should stop wasting ink on sentences that will arrive after I have come home, but he never once wrote a line he did not mean, and neither will I. The lettering shop on Harbour Street is closed for the season, so I had the old man at the chandler's do my hand instead, the one with the long tail on the f. He asked what the words were for. I told him they were for crossing the water on a night the tide did not want me to. He laughed and said most people who wanted those words had already decided on the crossing and only needed reminding.

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The boat leaves at six tomorrow if the glass holds. I have packed the blue jumper you hate and the tin with the hare on it, and I have left the key under the second stone, where you always said nobody would think to look. Tell the children the lighthouse is still painted white, and tell Mrs Coyle I owe her a shilling and a long apology for the business with the hens.

When you read this, go down to the slip at dusk and look west. If the light there is steady, I am already past the headland, and you may stop worrying about the weather. If it flickers, put the kettle on anyway, because I will be cold and I will want tea.