Fine line black script reading we only part to meet again with a date beneath and two small bird silhouettes, tattooed on the side of the ribs.

Script quote and two birds on the ribs

Fine line · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

Two small black bird silhouettes sit above a handwritten script quote reading we only part to meet again, with the date 8.13.11 set beneath it. The linework is fine and the lettering is cursive, with solid black ink and no shading. The tattoo sits on the side of the ribs, with a pink bra strap and a hand resting on the torso at the edges of the frame.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Tom, the starlings came back to the keep again this morning, two of them, perched on the broken lip of the east wall where the masons never finished the parapet. I watched them from the kitchen step with my tea going cold. You'd have said they were the same pair that nested in the chapel roof last spring, and you'd have been daft about it, the way you are about everything with wings.

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The bailiff has sent word that the roof slates won't be paid for until the autumn, so the rain keeps coming through into the great hall and I've set out every bucket we own. Mrs Hebden says the old lady of the tower is in a temper about it. I told her the ghost could pay for the slates herself. She laughed, which she hasn't done since the funeral.

I know you think I should have come to Leith with you. But someone has to keep the gate shut and the candles lit for the visitors who still walk up from the village on a Sunday. Write when the boat docks. Write properly, not just your name on the back of a fish receipt.

When the wind turns south the birds lift off all together, and I stand at the gap in the wall and wait for them to come round again. They always do. Send me the day you're home and I'll be at the gate with the kettle on.

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