Small colour tattoo of a pineapple with a dark outline, yellow body and green leaves, on the ankle of a person wearing a grey sock and sitting beside a red tartan fabric.

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Small pineapple tattoo on ankle

Ankle · Colour · Photo

A small pineapple is drawn with a dark outline, with the body filled in yellow and a crosshatch of scale-like marks across the fruit. Three green leaves sit at the top, also outlined in dark ink. The tattoo sits on the side of an ankle against plain skin, with a red and dark tartan fabric in the background.

Ankle Pineapple Fruit Leaves

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The pineapple had ridden in the footwell since Barstow, and by the time Ruth pulled off the highway at Dry Fork its paper bag had gone soft and translucent at the bottom. She didn't want to think about what that meant for the fruit. Hal was already out of the cab, boots crunching on the gravel, squinting up at the Sunrise Motel sign, which had lost its S and most of its vacancy light.

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The pineapple was meant for her brother. Last spring he had sent a postcard from a fishing town on the far coast, saying he'd found work mending nets and that the roadside stalls there sold them by the armful, like cabbages. Ruth hadn't believed him. She had kept the card tucked behind the sun visor ever since, its corners worn round from being touched. Hal said the spiky thing looked like a grenade wearing a crown, and that she was carrying it around like a relic.

The woman at the desk, Mrs Ocampo, wore reading glasses on a beaded chain and had a radio playing old dance music somewhere behind her. When Ruth set the fruit on the counter, the old woman laughed so hard she had to sit down on the stool. She said her husband had planted a pineapple in a pot by the door forty years ago and it had never once flowered, and that she'd stopped expecting anything from it. Then she took the fruit, weighed it in her palm, and handed over a key to room nine with a tartan blanket folded on top.

That night they ate the pineapple on the concrete step outside, juice running down their wrists while the desert cooled around them and the highway hummed far off. Ruth turned the postcard over in her head. Her brother had never been a joker, and yet the fruit had been waiting for her all along, at the end of a road she hadn't chosen. She wiped her hands on the blanket and decided she would write him back.