Flash drawing of pink lips biting a gold bullet engraved with the words Trust no Bitch, in a traditional style, with no placement on the body shown.

Pink lips biting a bullet with script

Traditional · Colour · Flash

A drawing of pink lips clenched around a gold bullet casing, with the script words Trust no Bitch engraved on its side. The lips and teeth are shaded with pink and white tones and the bullet has metallic gold shading and a pointed tip. The plain cream background keeps the focus on the central design.

Traditional Lip Script Quote Teeth

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The casing came across my counter at quarter past two, wrapped in a betting slip from Doncaster. Rain had soaked into the paper and blurred the names, but the brass underneath was clean. Someone had polished it hard, the way you polish a thing you mean to keep looking at. Along its side ran a copperplate motto that belonged to a dead century, and I'd only ever heard those words from men who owed money.

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I asked the woman who'd brought it where she got it. She said she hadn't got it, she'd been given it, by a man she'd stopped trusting the week before. Her coat was wet through and she kept her hands in its pockets. Pawnbroking on Chapel Street teaches you that every story walks in with a price tag. Hers came with a bus ticket to Bolton and a tin of mints she didn't offer me. I gave her forty pounds for the brass. She laughed and said it was worth more than my shop, and I told her nothing in my drawers was worth more than my shop.

She left. I put the casing in the safe, then took it out again, because a warning is only useful if somebody reads it. The end was unscrewed with a fingernail. Inside, rolled tight as a cigarette, was a single receipt from a Bolton jeweller, dated Tuesday, with my own shop's name written across the bottom in a hand I knew.

Downstairs the shutter rattled, then went still. Someone was testing it, the way I'd taught myself to test everything.