Black script lettering tattooed along a forearm, with the hand resting on a striped pillow.

Script quote along a forearm

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A black script quote runs diagonally along the forearm, with the lines curving and sloping across the skin. The linework is smooth and even, with the letters varying slightly in thickness, and the ink is solid black with no shading. The photograph is taken at close range on a bed, with a zebra-striped pillow and a dark garment visible in the background.

Lettering Forearm Script Quote Text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Nell, the post boat came in on Tuesday with nothing for us but a bill from the chandler and your brother's cough syrup, which he has not paid for, so do not tell him I said so. The wind has not dropped in nine days. The gulls walk about the slipway as if they own it, and Mr Pryce has taken to sleeping in the boathouse with the dog.

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I found your old ribbon in the drawer under the tide tables, the blue one with the knot you tied when you were six and swore you would never take it off. I have fastened it to the window catch where the light comes in at four. I know you think I am soft. Maybe I am. But I sat there yesterday with the kettle going cold and I thought, there is no sense waiting for the weather to be kind before we agree to be kind ourselves.

The Kestrel went out again this morning with Hollis at the tiller, and she came back before noon with her mast whole and two crates of salt cod nobody will buy. Nobody says it aloud, but it was a good day. Write and tell me what you saw on the crossing. Tell me something small, the colour of a cloud or the name of a fish. I want to read something that is not about the sea.

Your loving sister, Agnes. P.S. The ribbon is still tied. The knot has come through two gales and a sneeze from the dog. I checked it again this evening, and I am trying to believe it means something, though I could not tell you what.