Black and grey realism tattoo of a woman's face with a chain across the mouth, covering the front of a man's neck.

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Realistic woman's face with chain on neck

Realism · Neck · Black and grey · Photo

A large portrait of a woman's face with a chain across the mouth, shown on the front of a neck above a black crew-neck top. The image is rendered in smooth black and grey shading with soft, blended edges and strong contrast around the eyes and cheekbones. The face fills most of the frame, and the cropped view shows only the neck and the lower edge of the beard.

Realism Neck Face Portrait Woman Chain Mouth Neck

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody claims the things left on the 6.12 to Carlisle, so they end up with me. Umbrellas, a tin of travel sweets, a child's wellington boot. On a wet Tuesday in February there was a flat parcel wrapped in brown paper and tied with wire, and inside it a canvas the size of a tea tray. A woman's face, worked in grey and black so closely that she seemed to be standing just behind the paper and pressing forward. A chain ran across her mouth, and someone had sealed the links with a dab of red wax that had since cracked.

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I logged it under Miscellaneous and put it on the shelf above the kettle, where I could see it from the hatch. The ticket office girl said it gave her the creeps. I told her it gave me the opposite, that it looked like someone trying very hard to say something and being told no. She laughed, then stopped, because she had stood on the concourse the morning the station announcer was taken off the air. The board went blank mid-sentence, and a voice everyone knew simply stopped.

A man came in on the Friday asking after a parcel. He didn't give a name, only described the wire and the wax, and when I lifted it down he touched the chain with one finger and said she had always wanted the last word. I asked if he wanted it back. He said no, it had been sent to the wrong platform on purpose, so that someone would have to look at it properly.

After he left I stood at the hatch and read the departure board aloud, every stop, every time, the way the old announcer used to. Nobody complained. The kettle clicked off, and the face on the shelf kept its mouth shut, but it was the first time in three years that the station had sounded like it meant what it said.