Fine line script tattoo reading family with a small heart outline on the side of a finger, in dark ink.

Script word family with heart on finger

Fine line · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a hand with the word family tattooed in thin, cursive script along the side of one finger, with a small open heart outline to the right. The linework is fine and uniform, and the ink is dark grey to black. The hand is held against a cream, textured fabric background, with the tattoo placed centrally in the frame.

Fine line Lettering Hand Family Heart Script Word

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tom, the kettle's on and the gulls are arguing over the bins again, so you'll have to forgive the smudge where Mrs Pascoe's cat walked across the table. Your father would have had something to say about the post coming late. He says nothing now, which is harder to bear than the shouting ever was, though I suppose you know that better than I do.

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I went down to the quay on Tuesday with your sister's drawings in my coat pocket, the ones with the lopsided boat and the four of us standing on the sand as tall as the lighthouse. Nobody on the harbour wall wanted to talk about the weather, so I talked about you. Old Harry from the chandlery said the Gannet Pride came in with a hold full of pollack and a crew who'd sung the whole way round the headland. I didn't tell him I'd rather have had you singing badly beside me.

Ruth has taken to writing the word on everything. She wrote it on the flour tin, on the back of the calendar, and last night, very carefully, on the lid of the biscuit box, with a little heart beside it that she insisted was not a kiss. Family, it says, in her looping hand, which is so like yours it frightens me. I've decided to leave it. Some words earn their keep by being said over and over until the house believes them.

Come home when the nets are mended. The spare room is aired, the kettle is ready, and there's a space on the dresser that has been waiting for your mug since March.

Love, Mum