Fine line black outlined flower with a pink fill on the inner ear, with a small crystal stud piercing set in its centre.

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Small flower tattoo on the inner ear

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A small five-petalled flower is tattooed on the inner helix of an ear, drawn in black outline with a soft pink wash inside the petals. A clear crystal stud piercing sits in the centre of the flower. The photograph is a close, well-lit view of the ear with a second stud earring visible on the lobe below.

Fine line Other Flower Ear Crystal

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Our Lily had one rule about the pit yard: nothing grew there that the men hadn't trodden on first. So when a single campion came up through the cinders behind the baths in April, she knelt in her good stockings and dug it out with a dessert spoon, roots and all, and carried it home in her apron pocket like contraband.

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Dad said it would be dead by Whitsun. It wasn't. She stood the jam jar on the back sill above the sink and tapped the glass every time the buzzer went at the top of the shift, as if counting heads. By summer it had a flush of pink in every bloom, and a clear quartz chip from the seam that Ellis, the lamp man, had found wedged in his boot and given her for luck.

Then the notices went up in October and the buzzer stopped meaning anything. Men stood about the bottom of Hetton Lane with their hands in their pockets, reading the same letter over and over as if it might change its mind. Lily didn't cry. She took the jar down, pressed the stone into the soil beside the root, and walked up to the old spoil heap where the wind comes in off the sea.

We planted it there at dusk, the two of us, and she laughed when I said it would never take in that muck. It's still there, I'm told. Ellis's grandson sends a photo every spring, a scrap of pink against the black slope, with a small glint in the middle where the stone catches the light.