Script quote across the upper back
Lettering · Back · Black and grey · Photo
A close photograph of a fine black script tattoo reading Fairest of them all, running diagonally across the upper back. The lettering is thin, monoline and handwritten in style, with a slight upward slant and looped joins. The skin is pale and evenly lit, with dark hair falling over the top right of the frame and no face visible.
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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction
Mrs Okonedo had asked for the lettering to look like her late husband's hand, so Perrin spent three evenings copying grocery lists he had kept in a shoebox. The loops had to lean the way he leaned, a little uphill, as if the words were climbing out of the page toward somebody they wanted to impress.
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'Not the big capitals,' she said on the Thursday, holding the barber's mirror up to the lamp. 'He never shouted.'
Perrin had been sign-writing in Holbeck for twenty-two years and knew that a mirror was the worst surface a brush could ever meet. Everything painted on glass came out backwards from the other side, and the eye kept checking. He pencilled the phrase first, then went over it in thin black ink, each letter joining the next with the lazy hook of a man who had written in a hurry all his life. Fairest of them all. The mirror was for the hallway, she said, so she would see it every morning while doing her hair.
She paid in coins and didn't watch him wrap it. Walking home, Perrin caught his reflection in the bakery window and noticed the same slant to his mouth, the same looped hesitation. Behind him, the old woman's question followed him down Hunslet Road: would the ink last? He had told her it would, which was the only promise a sign-writer ever really made.
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