Black and white photo of a fine line arrow tattoo on the inner forearm of a woman whose hand rests near her chest.

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Small arrow tattoo on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A small black arrow with a thin shaft and a feathered head sits across the inner forearm, pointing towards the wrist. The linework is crisp and simple, with little or no shading. The monochrome photograph shows the woman's hand touching her chest in a black bra, with the face cropped out of frame.

Fine line Forearm Arrow

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Tom,

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The apples came in early this year, most of them bruised by the June hail, so Mr Pryce says we'll be making cider until Michaelmas whether we like it or not. I've been sitting in the fletching shed with the door propped open for the light, which is the only way I can see to split quills now. Your grandad's old jig is still on the bench where you left it, with a curl of blue jay feather caught in the clamp.

I finished the batch you asked for. Eighteen shafts of ash, straight as I could get them, every one fletched with three feathers and bound in red thread, the way you like. I sighted down the last one at the orchard gate this morning, and the line ran clean from the wasp trap to the pear tree at the bottom of the rows, which is more than I can say for my knees.

I know you think I'm cross that you went. I'm not. A bow has to be drawn back before it can send anything anywhere, and you've been drawn back long enough. Go on, then. Shoot what you need to shoot.

Keep the one with the feather from the old cockerel, the one I cut crooked by mistake. It will fly wide, but it always swings back toward the hand that loosed it, and I have a feeling that's what you'll be wanting. The parcel goes Thursday. Mind the wrist guard. You always forget it.

Love, Nan