Black and grey photo of a small dark tattooed mark on a finger, with a silver ring on the next finger.

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Small mark on a finger

Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A close black and white photograph of two hands held together, showing a small dark tattoo on the side of one finger. The tattoo is a simple, blocky mark with bold, solid lines and no visible shading. The soft focus and grey tones keep attention on the tattoo and the thin silver ring on the neighbouring finger.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dear Ada, The bent nail came back in the post today, wrapped in the same brown paper Mr Pell uses for his eels. No letter, only the nail and a smear of tar. You'll remember it, the old blacksmith's offcut Father hammered into the slipway so the boats had something to tie to when the wind got up.

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I walked down to the slip at low water with the lamp. The mark is still there on the timber, cut square with a chisel: one upright and a foot turned out like a boot. Mrs Hale says it's the Lark's sign, after the boat lost off the Nab in the big gale, and Father would have laughed at that. He cut it the week you married, so I always thought it was yours.

The thin ring you left on the windowsill is still in the saucer where you put it. I can't post it back until I know whether you want the room or the sea. Harold asks after you every Sunday, and I tell him the tide keeps you busy.

Last night I took the ring down to the slip. At high water the notch fills up and the sea runs over the cut, and I pushed the ring onto the nail's old hole, where it caught and sat there as if someone had measured it. I left it for the tide to decide. Write when you can. Your loving sister, Nell.