A small black cross tattoo in fine line style sits on the side of a woman's back, below her shoulder, while her long hair covers her face.

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Small black cross on a woman's back

Fine line · Back · Black and grey · Photo

A woman with long light brown hair sits with her face hidden by her hair and one hand raised to her head, wearing a loose white sleeveless top that is cut low at the back. A small, simple black cross is inked on the side of her back below the shoulder, with thin, even lines and solid black ink. The photo has a warm, slightly faded Polaroid-style frame and border, and the tattoo is the only clear focal point.

Fine line Back Cross

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The chalk cross on the pit-head door had been there since the Ellis shift went down in March, and nobody at Carrow Bank would rub it out. You walk past it every morning with your tin under your arm, touching the wood the way your mother touches the kitchen doorframe for luck. Your father calls that superstition. Your father has not been down since the roof came in on the Tuesday, so he is in no position to lecture anyone about luck.

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Mr Hewitt works from a back room above the Co-op, with a needle that hums like a bee in a jar. He does not ask why. He asks how big, and you hold up a thumb and forefinger apart, the width of a shift token, and he laughs and says that's the size of a midge. Small will do. Small is what you can carry down a shaft without it catching on anything.

It stings along the rib where the bone sits close. He wipes the ink away with a paper towel and the mark comes up black and certain, and you watch it settle into your skin like a nail driven into soft pine. When he holds the hand mirror up you can see it only backwards, the upright arm pointing at the wrong shoulder, and for a moment you think he has made a mistake. Then you understand it was never meant to face you. It faces whoever stands behind you in the cage, waiting for the bell.

On Monday you tap the pit-head door twice with your knuckles, the way you were taught, and pass the chalk mark without looking at it. The lamp catches the cross on the wall of the lamp room as you go, and it is the wrong way round, and it is still the right one.