Black and grey script lettering with swirling flourishes across a lower abdomen, above two heart-framed pin-up tattoos on the thighs.

Script lettering on abdomen with heart pin-up thighs

Lettering · Other · Black and grey · Photo

The image shows a lower torso wearing black and white houndstooth-patterned underwear, with large script lettering with decorative flourishes across the abdomen. Two heart-shaped frames on the thighs each contain a vintage-style pin-up woman, shaded in grey tones. The lettering uses bold, shaded strokes and the thigh tattoos have softer shading, all in black and grey on a light skin tone.

Lettering Traditional Other Thigh Script Lettering Flourish Heart Pin-up Woman Hat

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Keep your wrist loose, Dougie, or the loop on the W goes heavy and the whole word sits in the paint like a cow in a ditch. Mrs Halloran wants it across the ticket hut by Saturday, and she wants it swinging, the way the gulls swing over the harbour wall.

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He had the mahl stick across his knuckles and his tongue between his teeth, the way his father used to work, and I left him to the flourishes. I took the two heart boards to the back wall instead. Hearts were easy when you were angry at someone, and I was angry at everyone that spring. One girl held a hand mirror up to her own face, the other wore her hat low enough to hide a question. I gave them grey shading the colour of the dock at dusk, because nobody in Dunmore ever paid a shilling to see a bright thing.

By Friday the lettering was dry and the girls were finished. Dougie stood back with his arms folded and said the last few letters looked like a dare. I told him that was the point of a sign. Mrs Halloran paid us in tea and a biscuit tin of coppers and asked for nothing else.

On Saturday morning the hut was empty, the key under the mat and a postcard tucked behind the glass. It showed a train halfway up a mountain. On the back, in her looping hand, it said the last stroke is yours to finish, Dougie. I still haven't told him which one.