Fine line black crescent moon tattoo on the inner forearm near the wrist, with a plaid shirt cuff and dark jacket visible.

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Small crescent moon on a forearm

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A small, thin outlined crescent moon sits on the inner forearm close to the wrist. The linework is single and delicate, with no shading, and the ink is dark grey-black against the skin. The plain pale background and the plaid cuff and dark jacket keep the focus on the small tattoo.

Fine line Forearm Crescent moon Moon Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit closer, the lot of you, the canvas won't keep the damp out if you hang back like cattle at a gate. Right. Where was I? Ah, the moon. You'll want to know why the moon was the only thing on the Hollis and Tanner fair that never needed a ticket. It was the year the big wheel snapped its bolt outside Thornley, and old Ada Marrow was left holding the cash box and a sliver of tin she'd bought off a tinker for a shilling.

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The tin was no bigger than a thumbnail, cut thin as a fingernail paring, and she hung it on a length of waxed cord above the fortune booth. Every night a girl came in with a question and every night the answer was the same: the moon is only ever half of itself, and the dark half is where you keep what you can't spend. The customers laughed. Then they stopped laughing, because the dark half kept filling up with things they'd lost. A glove. A brother's whistle. A letter that was never sent.

Then came the autumn the wagons went north without her. Ada packed the cord into her coat and walked the lane alone. Where the hedges grew thick with sloes she heard a tune she knew from a music box she'd broken as a child, and it was her own name, whistled low, from somewhere in the dark of the hedge.

She took the tin off the cord and turned it to the lamp. The dark half was blank. She scratched her name into it with a hatpin, and the wind, which had carried every lost thing back to the fair, carried that too.