Small black and grey fine line tattoos on several fingers of a hand resting on a wooden table, including a pistol, a crown, outlined hearts and a letter M.

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Small finger tattoos including hearts and a crown

Fine line · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A hand rests palm down on a wooden table, showing small tattoos on several fingers. The designs include a pistol, a crown, an outlined broken heart, an outlined heart, a letter M, a dollar sign and a cross, drawn with thin black linework and little shading. The ink is all black and grey, and the nails have dark stiletto polish with metallic copper tips.

Fine line Hand Pistol Crown Heart Dollar sign Cross Star Finger Hand

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mickey Dunphy had eleven pounds, two kings and a theory that nobody at the Lamplighter's back table ever read a bluff. The room upstairs smelled of wet wool and lemon polish. The oak was worn pale in front of every chair, the way wood goes where people have leaned on it for years and lost. Across from him, Nell Ashcroft tapped the felt with her filed points, slow as a clock, and waited for him to blink.

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"You're doing the thing with your jaw," she said. "Pay me or fold." He pushed the eleven pounds forward, then his grandfather's watch, which had survived two wars and a flood, then the deed to a lock-up on Hessle Road he had never once opened. Nell looked at the watch for a long time. She turned her cards over one by one, the way a conjuror shows you the empty hat first, and each was a queen of something. The last card she kept face down under her thumb until he had sweated through his collar.

He expected to feel robbed. Instead the next morning he found himself on Newland Avenue, staring at his grandfather's watch in a pawnbroker's window with a price card propped against it: forty pounds, not for sale to the man who lost it. Someone had already painted a small gold crown on the glass beside the price, the way shopkeepers mark a bargain they are proud of.

Mickey went home and cleared the drawer where the lock-up keys lived. Three weeks later a parcel arrived at his flat, wrapped in brown paper and sealed with wax. Inside was the watch, wound and ticking, and a single key on a loop of red thread. Nell had written nothing. She had not needed to. He wound the watch every Sunday after that and never once asked her why she had chosen to give it back.