Small black fine line tattoo of a diamond with crossing lines on the heel of a bare foot, viewed from the side.

Small line symbol on a heel

Fine line · Other · Black and grey · Photo

A bare foot, seen from the side and below, shows a small tattoo of a diamond shape with crossing lines on the heel near the ankle. The linework is thin and solid black with no shading. The warm, orange-toned lighting and blurred background keep the focus on the small mark.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit closer, you, where the lamp can reach your faces. No, not the stool, take the crate, it's dry. Now mind me, this is the night I tell about the Mary Lune and the mark on her rail, because the lot of you have been asking since Iceland.

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Thirty days out from Tromsø with salt cod in the hold and a cook who could not boil an egg, the boat ran into a fog so thick the bowsprit vanished in it. Old Anders Holm, who had mended nets for forty years, went forward with a knife and a fistful of tarred twine. He cut a diamond into the wood, a square turned on its point, and drew two lines across it, corner to corner, the way his grandmother had drawn them over the door of every house she ever lived in. Crossed lines, he said, so the sea cannot slip through.

The fog held nine more days. Nobody slept. On the tenth morning Ingrid, the galley girl, eleven years old and stubborn as a gull, came up with a cracked slate in her fist and said she had seen that same mark scratched into the harbour wall at home. She was right. They had been sailing in a circle, following their own wake. Anders lifted the wheel and pointed where the lower corner of the diamond aimed, and the grey thinned like wet paper.

Ask me what he did with the knife after. He gave it to the girl. She is the one who taught me the mark, and now I'm teaching it to you. Go on, draw it on your palm with a finger. Now close your hand. Keep it closed and you'll always know which way the lines point.

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