Close-up of a fine line black script tattoo reading "it's real for us" across the inner forearm.

Script quote on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A woman's forearm carries the words "it's real for us" in a thin, flowing cursive script. The linework is fine and even, in a single dark ink with no shading, and the lettering runs diagonally across the arm. The background shows a striped top and a patterned wall, with the subject's face and head cropped out of frame.

Fine line Lettering Forearm Script Quote Word Cursive

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The postman has taken the last of the summer with him, so I am writing this on the back of Mr Pryce's rent receipt because the good paper went to the boat. You will say I have gone soft. Perhaps. But I sat on the harbour wall last night and watched the Skerry light come round, the way you showed me, one long white look and then the dark, and I thought of all the years we spent arguing over whether the thing between us was a story we told each other to get through the winters.

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It was never a story. I have decided that. This afternoon I climbed up to the lantern room with the oil can under my arm and scratched it into the inside of the glass with a hatpin, small and slanting, so the next keeper who wipes the panes will read it when the beam swings across: it's real for us. Mrs Anstey says the glass belongs to the Northern Lights Board and I am a vandal. Let her write to them.

Come home at Michaelmas or don't, but send word either way. I will keep the kettle warm and the wick trimmed, and if your boat comes in on the evening tide I will be the one on the wall, not pretending to read.