Black and white photo of a woman's bare back with fine-line script lettering running vertically down the spine, one arm raised to her head.

Script lettering down the spine

Fine line · Back · Black and grey · Photo

A back-view photograph of a woman with dark shoulder-length hair, one arm raised to her head. A vertical line of thin, cursive script runs down the centre of her back, in black ink. The monochrome composition is softly lit, with a bed and white wall in the background.

Fine line Lettering Back Script Lettering Handwriting Text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Morag, the ferry was late again this morning, so I had time to finish the sign for the Co-op. I did it in gold, not the cheap yellow Hamish keeps trying to sell us. I stood on the slipway with the brush between my teeth while the wind tried to take the paper off my knee, and I thought of you saying I would never finish anything I started.

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The island has gone quiet since the last boat. Mrs Kerr has taken to sitting at her window with the good cups out, as if somebody might come up the hill for tea. I told her the boat comes Tuesdays and Fridays, and she said she knows, she is only keeping the cups warm. I did not argue. You would have laughed at me for arguing with a woman about cups.

I have cut a stencil of the long looping capitals you liked, and I wrote the last line out slowly, the way Father taught us on the back of the seed catalogue, so a hand shows what it means. It is pinned above the bench where the light falls. When the boat comes in on Friday, come and look at it before you go up to the house. I want to see your face when you read it, and I want you to be the first to tell me whether I have spelled it right. Your brother, Calum.