Fine line black script tattoo reading God is still working on me on the inner forearm near the wrist.

Script quote on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A hand rests on a teal leather car seat, with the inner forearm turned towards the camera. A thin, flowing black script reads God is still working on me along the forearm, running down towards the wrist. The linework is fine and even, with no shading, and the plain black ink contrasts clearly with the pale skin against the blue-green background.

Fine line Lettering Forearm Script Quote Handwriting Text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The card had come in folded twice, soft at the creases, and Ada Quayle unfolded it on the bench with two fingers so the size would not smear. Someone had written a line in pencil, then gone over it in ink, looping every capital as if afraid it might leave. God is still working on me. Mr Lowther wanted it on the glass of his allotment shed, gold on black, by Saturday.

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He stood in her doorway while she mixed the gilt, turning his cap in both hands. He had taught infants in Cleethorpes for forty years and said he could still hear the chalk on the board. Copy it exact, he said. Don't tidy the tail on the m. I decided on that tail over a whole winter, you know. She wanted to correct the spacing between the w and the o, but she kept her knife steady and laid out the transfers, following his pencil line by line while the kettle went cold behind her.

It took her two afternoons. The gold went down in one clean run, and when she lifted the tissue the final stroke of the e trailed past the edge of the glass, thin as a hair, catching the low sun in a way she had not planned. Mr Lowther pressed his palm flat against the varnish, looked at it a long time, and said it was finished.

She did not argue. Some letters are never meant to close.