Black and grey fine line tattoos of a script word across the upper back and two outlined figures on the upper arms, on a person wearing a bear-print tank top.

Script and outlined figures on upper back and arms

Fine line · Back · Black and grey · Photo

A back view of a person with shoulder-length wavy dark hair, wearing a white tank top printed with bears. A small script word sits at the top of the upper back near the neck, and two simple outlined figures are tattooed on the upper arms, one on each side. The linework is thin and uniform, the image is entirely black and grey, and the soft, plain background keeps the focus on the skin.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The flip-book had lost its last page somewhere between Ramsgate and the pier, so Vera had to draw the ending herself, in biro, on the back of a chip paper. Her grandfather always said the trick was keeping the figures thin, because thick lines make people look like they are carrying something. The little bob-haired girl in the first frames had nothing to carry but a small red umbrella, and the tall dancer beside her had nothing at all except his two-step.

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Every cel in the tin had bears on it. Bears hauling sacks of coal, bears reading the paper, bears asleep under a bus shelter. Grandad drew them without thinking, the way other men hummed. On the night the council switched off the lights along the front, Vera carried the tin up the steps to the shelter where the dancer was meant to wait, and found a bear sitting in his place, reading the local paper upside down.

"You're late," the bear said, which was rude for a bear and also, Vera suspected, correct. The girl would not step out of the frame unless somebody gave the dancer a tune, so Vera hummed the one Grandad hummed while inking, a tune with no proper ending. The dancer stood up off the page, lifted his hat, and began.

By the time the tide came in, the bear had folded the paper into a boat and the girl had her umbrella open against a drizzle only she could see. Vera drew the last frame herself: the three of them walking away down the pier, the lines so thin the sea showed through.

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