Small solid black star tattoo on the inner forearm near the wrist, with the hand raised against a textured grey wall.

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Small black star on the inner wrist

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A raised arm shows a small, solid black star tattoo on the inner forearm close to the wrist. The star has filled black ink with a simple, crisp outline and sits centrally against pale skin. The plain, textured grey wall behind the arm keeps the focus on the tattoo.

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Dear Nell, the Bedford has taken its second puncture since Tuesday and I am sitting on the running board with a torch in my teeth, writing this while the sand cools. The road out past Sayer's Well is nothing but a pale line on the map and a rumour in the café at Tuscarora. Mr Abernethy swears it will be tarmac by spring. I have stopped believing him.

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Last night I did something daft. The cloud was so thick over the ridge that I could not tell north from my own boots, so I stood on the tailgate and waited. Then one star came through, low and sharp, just above the dead saguaro. I kept my eye on it the way Dad taught me on the boat, and I walked where it told me, nearly three miles, until the gravel came up under my feet again.

At first light I found the star was not a star at all but the tin sign for Ruiz Garage, one point bent flat, lit from behind by a bulb somebody had forgotten to switch off. I laughed until I had to sit down in the grit. Still, it had got me to the road, and that is more than most things manage out here.

I am keeping the sign. I've bolted it to the dashboard, bent point facing up, so whatever happens I know which way is home. Write back care of the post office at Sayer's Well. Tell me the lamp is still on at the kitchen window. Your loving sister, Bea.

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