Two clasped hands show small red fine line tattoos of a K and a Q, each paired with a heart, on the fingers.

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Red K and Q heart tattoos on fingers

Hand · Mixed · Photo

Two hands are clasped together, with the fingers showing small red tattoos of a letter K beside a heart and a letter Q beside a heart. A partial black and grey design is visible on the edge of another finger, and a dark mark sits near the first finger. The red lines are crisp against the skin, and the close framing keeps the fingers as the main subject against a dark textured background.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The Miners' Welfare on Colliery Row smells of wet wool and Woodbine smoke, and the shift has left grit in every crease of you. Dot deals the last hand of pontoon across the beer-ringed table with the same flat patience she uses on the wages clerk. You have four shillings in coppers and a losing run behind you, and she knows it before you do.

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"Cards don't care who's skint, Jack," she says, and turns the top one over. A king of hearts. Your stomach drops, because you have carried a queen of hearts in your coat pocket since March, a photograph folded soft at the corners, and you have never once managed to say so out loud. Dot's eyes stay on the pack while the lamp hums above you.

The rule in Bert's Friday game is that a king and a queen of the same suit make a marriage, and a marriage pays double. You have watched grown men shout themselves hoarse over that rule. Dot slides the queen face up beside the king and waits, the way the pit waits for the cage to come up with its load, and you realise she has known about the photograph all along.

"Double or nothing," you say. "Ask me properly." She laughs and pushes the coppers across the baize. The two red hearts lie side by side under the lamp, and somewhere far beneath the town the cage bell rings twice.