Fine black serif lettering reading a short quote, with a small red heart below it, on the forearm of a woman in a grey top.

Serif quote and small heart on a forearm

Lettering · Forearm · Mixed · Photo

A woman wearing a grey long-sleeved top with the sleeve rolled up shows a tattoo on the outer forearm. The tattoo is a line of black serif capital lettering set in a fine, even stroke, with a small red heart beneath the text. The background is a plain grey wall and the lighting is soft and even.

Lettering Fine line Forearm Quote Lettering Heart Text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The wasps have found the windfalls before you do, so you kick through the long grass in your boots, sorting the sound apples from the split ones into Mrs Pardoe's wicker baskets while the lorry idles at the orchard gate. Late August has made the air thick and sweet, and the Discovery trees along the bottom row are bowing under their own weight.

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Dennis, the lad from the agency, keeps scooping the biggest fruit into his own crate when he thinks you aren't looking. You say nothing at first. Grandad's chalk sign still hangs over the packing shed door, faded almost to nothing: NO MATTER WHO YOU ARE, ALWAYS BE THE GOOD ONE. Someone painted a small red heart beneath it the year the shed flooded, and nobody has ever had the heart to scrub it off.

So at noon you take the tall ladder down to the far row, where Dennis is too nervous to climb, and you pick the high branches yourself, the ones that catch the sun and bruise easily. You leave the crooked ones on the lower limbs for him. When you come back with your arms scratched and your hands sticky, your basket is full, and there is a new crate beside the gate with a handful of his best Bramleys set carefully on top, stalks all pointing the same way.