Black and grey photo of a small sketchy outline heart tattoo on a person's ribs, with the arm raised and a white vest top visible.

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Small heart tattoo on the ribs

Fine line · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A small heart outline is tattooed on the side of the ribcage, below the raised arm. The linework is thin and slightly loose, with doubled strokes that give a hand-drawn look. The black and grey photo is taken indoors against a bright window, with the tattoo placed low in the frame on bare skin above a white top.

Fine line Ribs Heart

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Put another log on, the wind's coming down off Greywood and it has no manners. You asked where the little heart came from, the one that looks like it was drawn twice. I'll tell it the way my grandmother told it to me, sat in that same chair.

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Tomas was the charcoal burner's boy at the edge of Hollin's Edge, and he could not write. His letters came out like a dropped fence. So when he wanted Ada Penrose to know he'd walk her home from the Thursday dance, he scratched a heart onto a sheet of birch bark with a horseshoe nail. His hand shook from the kiln smoke and the cold, so every line went over twice, once to find it and once to be sure. Ada read it by the well, laughed until she had to sit on the bucket, and then folded the bark small and put it in her apron pocket.

That winter the kiln fire died in a gale, and Tomas went up the track to the high clearing in the dark to see to it. He lost the path among the fallen beeches. Down in the village Ada took a tin lantern, pulled her shawl tight, and walked up the track with a stick, drawing lines in the frost as she went, each one doubled, so he'd know which way was home.

He found the frost lines at dawn, and he followed them down. Ada still has the bark, they say, though it has gone the colour of tea. And the heart over the door of their cottage is carved the same way, with the second stroke showing just beside the first. The children in the lane will tell you it's only a carpenter's mistake. Don't you believe them. Now, pass me that cup, and mind the coals.