Fine line script tattoo reading "one day at a time" in black ink across the inner wrist, with the hand open and fingers visible.

One day at a time script on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a hand held palm up and open, showing the inner wrist. The phrase "one day at a time" runs diagonally across the wrist in a thin, flowing black script with a slightly uneven stroke. The tattoo is the sharp focus of the frame, with a blurred brown and green background.

Fine line Lettering Forearm Quote Script Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The Pellow & Sons Travelling Show had lost its elephant in the spring and its lion in the summer, and by October it had one wagon with a sound roof and a horse that still liked to pull it. Tomas Drewe painted the lettering along that wagon's side himself, though nobody had asked him to. He sat on an upturned bucket in the rain with a fine brush and a tin of black enamel, and he let the letters lean upward toward the step, because his mother had always said a sign should lead you in.

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Mrs Aldous, who had run the ring for forty years and still wore her gloves to breakfast, came out with two cups of tea and stood reading over his shoulder. "What does it say?"

"One day at a time."

"That's a poor advert for a circus."

"It isn't for the crowd," Tomas said. "It's for whoever has to pull this wagon on Monday, and the Monday after that."

She didn't answer. She drank her tea and watched the rain run through the vowels, and when the paint was dry she went back inside without another word. In the morning the horse was harnessed, the tent was folded, and the show went north on the wet road with nothing in its ring but a stepladder.

In the spring the wagon was sold to a farmer in Cumbria, who used it for hay and never once cleaned the side. A girl from the village walked past it every day on her way to school, sounding the words out under her breath, and one morning she copied them into the back of her spelling book, slanting them up toward the page the way the paint had been slanting toward the step.