Small black line tattoo at the nape of a person with red and black layered hair, photographed from behind against a magenta painted backdrop.

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Small line tattoo at the nape

Fine line · Neck · Black and grey · Photo

The photograph shows the back of a person's head, with short layered hair that is curled and red-brown on top and dark black underneath. A small black line-work tattoo sits at the nape of the neck, partly hidden by the hair, and shows a simple outline design. The background is a bright magenta painted backdrop, and the composition is centred on the hair and neck.

Fine line Neck Outline Hair

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Sit nearer the range, the lot of you, because the wind has got into the barn again and I'll not tell this one to a draught. Now. My grandmother had it from her own grandmother, who swore it happened on the top field above Hollin Dyke the winter the beck froze solid to the bottom stones.

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There was a swallow that had been left behind. Everyone knows swallows go south when the days shorten, but this one had a wing that would not mend properly after a hawk took a feather from it, so it stayed in the cowshed rafters with the old ewes' breath rising round it. Farmer Dunning's girl, Ada, used to climb up with crusts in her pocket and talk to it about the weather as if it were a neighbour.

Come the hard frost, the swallow did a thing no bird should. It lifted from the rafter, tipped its good wing once, and drew a line across the frosted window with its shadow, so thin and black that the whole village could see it from the lane. Every morning after that the line was there, the lambs came out strong, and the snow kept its distance from the lower field.

Ada grew old and the swallow did not, and when they buried her the line was still on the glass. Dunning's son scraped at it with a blade and it would not come away. You can still see it if you stand where the light is low. Mind your step on the ice going out.