Black script lettering tattoo reading give faith a fighting chance, placed on a shoulder near the collarbone.

Script quote tattoo on a shoulder

Lettering · Shoulder · Black and grey · Photo

The tattoo is a black script phrase reading give faith a fighting chance, with the words flowing diagonally across the skin. The linework is fine and even, with thicker strokes on the loops and crossbars and thinner ones on the connecting strokes. The photo is a close, warm-toned snapshot in black ink only, with the phrase filling the centre of the frame against plain skin.

Lettering Shoulder Script Quote Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tom,

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Your mother has pinned the tide tables to the kitchen door again, so I expect you'll find this in the same place she found your boots. The roster's changed. You're on the Ellen Gray with Pearce now, not the Mary Ann. Pearce will tell you the sea is a bully. He's half right. It is a bully, but a bully can be argued with if you don't flinch first.

Last night the wind went round to the north-east and I sat up with the wireless waiting for the pager. It never came. I got to thinking about Jack Heslop, the old coxswain who taught me to tie a bowline in the dark. He used to say that every man lost at sea had been given his chance and spent it being sure of things. Don't be sure. Be quick, be sensible, and be kind to yourself afterwards. Give faith a fighting chance, he'd say, and then he'd wink, because he thought the phrase sounded soft. It wasn't soft. He'd dragged three men off the Herd Sands with it.

Write from Shields when you can, even if it's only a line. Tell me what the water looks like from the slipway and whether the canteen coffee is still undrinkable.

Your dad, Walter