Black fine line script tattoo reading 'spark' on the side of the ribs, shown under a loose white vest top.

Script word 'spark' on side ribs

Lettering · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A black script tattoo spelling the word 'spark' runs diagonally across the side of the ribcage. The thin, flowing linework has a slightly uneven hand-drawn quality, with no shading and no colour. The close crop shows the lettering against pale skin, with a white sleeveless top at the left and a bare upper arm at the right.

Lettering Fine line Ribs Word Script

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit down, you, and mind the kettle, because this is the one about the Skerrow light and the spark that wouldn't take. Eighteen-ninety-something, the lamp on Skerrow Head went dark three nights running. The keeper, old Tobias Lunn, had oil enough and wicks enough, but the flame sulked behind its glass like a cat that won't be stroked.

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His granddaughter Ada, eleven years old and nobody's fool, had been watching the gulls. She noticed the herring boats were tacking blind into the Sound, so she climbed the tower stair with a tin of lucifers and her grandfather's spectacles, which were no use to her at all. She knelt by the burner for an hour, breathing soft as a moth, striking one match after another until the tin was empty and her fingertips were black to the knuckle.

On the last match, the head caught with a sound like a small laugh. She cupped it in both hands, carried it to the wick, and the flame rose up as if it had only been waiting for someone to ask. Out past the rocks, a boat that had been circling in the dark turned for home. Tobias never once said thank you. He only said she had a steady wrist, and from him that was as good as a medal.

Now hush, the kettle's singing, and that's the end of it.