Fine line black tattoo of a small cross on the wrist of a hand resting among legs under a grey duvet on a white bed.

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Small cross tattoo on a wrist

Fine line · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A person lies on a white bed under a grey duvet, with one hand and bare legs visible. A small black tattoo resembling a cross or star sits on the wrist, drawn in thin, simple lines. The ink is dark grey-black against the skin, and the soft, neutral palette of the bedding frames the small mark.

Fine line Hand Cross Star

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The fog came in off the Minch on the third night of the gale, and the lamp at Carrick Head had gone sullen with salt. I climbed the iron stair with a tin of paraffin and my father's chart folded in my apron pocket, its corner worn soft where he had pressed his thumb to the Skerrow rocks a thousand times.

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Below, a fishing boat was feeling its way toward the gap. I could hear its engine stutter and cough, then steady. Nobody had asked me to light the wick by hand, but nobody else was there to do it, and the mechanism had jammed with the damp.

I struck the match three times before it caught. Then I scratched a small cross into the brass housing with the point of my knife, the way my father had marked the bearings, four short lines he called the crossing marks, so the next keeper would know where the light had been true. It was a foolish thing to do with a blade in the dark, but my hand was steady when the beam finally swept out over the water.

At dawn the boat came round the point with its nets full and its crew shouting my name across the swell. Mrs Gilchrist brought up a loaf still warm from her oven. I did not tell anyone the mark on the housing was for me. It was only a star, really, a small one to steer by, and the lamp has held true beneath it ever since.