Black script lettering reading family tattooed on the inner forearm of a hand raised near the wrist, in black ink.

Script word tattoo on a forearm

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A flowing script word is tattooed along the inner forearm, running diagonally from the wrist towards the elbow. The letters are drawn in black ink with fine, tapered strokes and large looping ascenders and descenders. The hand is raised in a loose fist against a speckled countertop, with pink nail varnish and rings visible.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The winter the river froze to the stones, the Harrow brothers stopped speaking over the matter of a heifer. Nobody in Lower Coombe could remember what the heifer had done to deserve being argued over, only that it had been sold twice and come back once, and that the eldest, Tom, would not sit at the same table as Will while the snow piled against the byre door.

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Their mother had a habit of writing things down. She kept a tin of old seed packets and a stub of pencil on a string, and on the last morning of December she wrote one word on the back of a feed sack: family. She made the letters so long and looping that the draught could not get under them. She pinned the sack to the kitchen door and went to bed without saying a thing.

Will read it first, coming in with the milk. Then Tom read it, and then the youngest, Jess, who was nine and could not have said why her face went hot. The word had no lines struck through it and no cross of blame. It only hung there, tall and loose, reaching from the top of the sack to the hem.

They did not make up that day. But at the thaw Tom found the heifer's old halter hung on Will's peg, and nobody asked how it got there.

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