Small black script lettering on the inner ankle of a leg, with a plum high-heeled shoe on the foot.

Small script word on an ankle

Lettering · Ankle · Black and grey · Photo

A close view of a leg in a plum suede-style high-heeled shoe, with a small single-word script tattoo on the inner ankle. The lettering is thin and written in a cursive, slightly slanted hand, rendered in dark grey or black ink. The background is dark and out of focus, and the tattoo is the only colour-neutral detail in the frame.

Lettering Fine line Ankle Script Word Leg

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The left shoe came in on a Tuesday, a plum suede court with its stiletto snapped clean at the ferrule. Dilys Hart turned it under the lamp and sniffed at the glue someone had tried before bringing it to her. She didn't hold with glue on a heel that carried weight, so she set it beside the brass cutter and went to look for steel.

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The order slip was pinned to the lace with a paperclip. The name had been scribbled out and rewritten twice, but the note underneath was clear, in a slanted hand that leaned forward as if late for a bus: Both heels if you can. Dilys had seen that hand before on a hundred shop windows, back when she painted signs on Kirkgate for a living and learned her letters from the same tin of gold leaf her mother kept by the sink. Good script, she thought, was only honest when it knew it would be read quickly.

She fitted the new steel, dressed the platform and rebuilt the worn edge with a scrap of suede she had saved from a bag lining in 1991. It took until closing. Under the bench light the plum went nearly black at the seams, and she kept thinking about the word the note had not spelled out, the one that would have been on the slip if anyone had been brave enough to write it.

At half five she wrote on the back of the slip, copying the slant exactly, Done, both sides, and tied it to the heel strap with red thread. Then she put the shoes in a paper bag, folded the top twice, and left them by the door where the late customers always looked first.