Close-up of a small black fine line tattoo of an outlined box with a shaded base on the back of a finger, next to grey painted nails.

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Small outlined box on a finger

Fine line · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A small outlined rectangular shape with a thicker shaded strip along its lower edge sits on the back of a finger. The linework is thin and dark black, with no shading beyond the base strip. The skin is warm toned against a dark blue fabric background, and the nails are painted grey.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The tape recorder had sat on the edge of the Pavilion stage since the Saturday the Silver Sevens walked off mid-set, and nobody had dared touch it. Mrs Okafor dusted round it on Mondays. Gary from the council wanted it in a skip. I was the one who had to move it, because the stage was being cleared for bingo on Friday, and it was Thursday.

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Inside the lid, under a strip of brown parcel tape, I found a cassette with handwriting on the label: Hall, last dance, don't record over. I should have left it alone. Instead I fed it into the deck, which took three goes and a bit of pencil in the spindle, and I turned the volume down low so the empty hall only had a hiss to fill it.

The first song was all bass and somebody counting in. Then came the crowd, a laugh close to the microphone, a woman shouting for her coat. Then the singer, near and tired, saying, 'That one's for Ruth, if she's still at the bar.' I looked up. The floor was bare and freshly varnished, but I could hear shoes on it, the old shuffle of heels turning on a packed floor.

I let the track run to the end. The tape finished on a long breath of applause, and the counter clicked to zero. I pressed rewind and watched the little wheels turn the whole night back to the beginning, so the next person to find it would hear it too.

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