Black script lettering reading My Story Isn't Over, with a large solid black semicolon above and below it, on a plain white background as a lettering tattoo design.

Semicolon with My Story Isn't Over script

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

A bold black semicolon sits above and below a line of flowing cursive script that reads My Story Isn't Over. The linework is solid black with no shading, and the lettering is centred and evenly spaced. The design is shown on a plain white background with no colour.

Lettering Semicolon Script Quote Text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Brother Hugh had been copying the abbey chronicle for three winters when he reached the page where the old abbot's hand gave out. The last entry was a tally of sheep sold at Penrith fair, then a line about the cold, and then nothing. The ink simply stopped mid-thought, as if the pen had been lifted by someone else.

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The prior wanted the book closed properly. "A full stop," he said, tapping the parchment with a thick finger. "Dead men's accounts end where they end." Hugh nodded and carried the volume back to his carrel, where the candle guttered in the draught from the cloister door.

He sat with it through Compline. Then he dipped his pen, wrote the words the abbot had meant to write, and above the place where a full stop belonged he set a small round dot, and below it a curved tail that dropped like a bead of wax. It was not a mark he had seen in any exemplar. He had invented it that night, and he knew the prior would scowl.

In the morning the prior came with his hand out for the book. Hugh gave it to him open at the page. The prior read it twice, lips moving, and said nothing for so long that the bell for Prime rang over his silence. Then he closed the book gently, the way one closes a door on someone sleeping, and handed it back. "Leave it," he said. "Let the reader wait."