Black fine line outline of a paper aeroplane tattoo on the forearm, shown against pale skin.

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Paper aeroplane outline on an arm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A single paper aeroplane is drawn as a simple black outline, with the folds shown as straight interior lines. The linework is even and clean, with no shading. The ink is solid black on pale skin, and the design sits alone in the centre of the frame with a textured surface visible at the edge.

Fine line Forearm Paper plane Aeroplane Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Margaret Ackroyd had the desk nearest the radiator, and every Friday she sent a plane down the length of Class Four while Mr Hoyle was turned to the blackboard. Nobody could say how she did it. The paper was always the back page of the register, folded so the nose came to a point you could have pricked a finger on, and it always landed on the desk of Winifred Pratt, who did not want it.

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Winifred kept them all. By the end of the spring term there were eleven, pressed flat inside her tin of pencil stubs, and she never once wrote back. She told her mother the planes were silly. Her mother said silly things had to come from somewhere, and went back to the sink.

The summer Winifred turned twelve, the boiler failed and the school moved her to the top floor. The windows up there were tall and would only open a hand's width. On the first morning she found a plane on her desk, folded from the last page of an atlas, its wings set true. Under one wing, in pencil, someone had written: Try the gap.

She tried the gap. The plane slid through the window, caught the wind over the bins and rose above the chapel roof, where nobody could ever retrieve it. Winifred watched until the bell went. Margaret Ackroyd never sent another one, and never once asked her what she had thought of it.