Black and white photo of a small, fine line anchor tattoo on a man's forearm, with a blurred street scene behind.

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Small anchor tattoo on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of a man's forearm, cropped at the shoulder and wrist, with a small anchor tattoo near the centre. The anchor is drawn in thin black linework with light shading on the shank and crossbar, and it has a simple ring at the top. The image is black and white, with a shallow depth of field that blurs the street background and keeps the tattoo in focus.

Fine line Forearm Anchor

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mum, the bridge is still standing, so you can stop ringing the council about it. I have been down to the slipway every morning this week the way you used to make me walk the dog before school, and the tide has been thick with gulls and the smell of diesel. Mr Okafor from number nine says the Aldous went down the Thames on Tuesday with a new engine and a crew of four, and I thought of Dad's old anchor chain lying in the cupboard under the stairs, the one he swore was the heaviest thing he ever lifted sober.

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I took it to the yard on Chapel Street, the one with the blue shutters. The man there, Tomasz, looked at the links and then at me and said nothing for a long time. He cleaned the rust off with a wire brush and oiled it, and when I asked him to put a small anchor on my arm he said he'd only do it if I promised not to tell him what it meant. I promised. He drew it freehand, quick and light, and the ring on top came out a little lopsided, which I have decided I like.

It is sore, and it is ugly in the way his hands were ugly. I keep pulling my sleeve up to check it in the window glass when I pass the Co-op. I have not decided yet whether I will tell Dad when he rings from the rig on Sunday. I suppose I will know by the time the chain is hung back up on the wall.