Small black semicolon tattoo on the inner wrist, with a heart-shaped dot above a comma-like mark in solid dark ink.

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Small semicolon tattoo on the inner wrist

Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of the inner wrist and the base of the hand, showing a small semicolon tattoo in solid black ink. The upper mark is a heart shape and the lower mark is a comma-like form with a tail curving to the left. The tattoo sits near the centre of the frame against plain, lightly lit skin.

Forearm Semicolon Heart Wrist

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mr Pryce said a sentence should either end or carry on, and that a man who hovered between the two was only frightened. He had no patience for the half-stop, so the men at Glebe Colliery came to me instead. I kept the front room above the Co-op and wrote their letters home, because most of them had left school at eleven to go down the drift and never learned the shapes of words that wait.

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The week the cage jammed at the number two shaft, Idris Vaughan sat across my table with his cap in his fists and told me what to say to his mother. He wanted a full stop after "alive". I shook my head and drew the little pause for him, the comma with its tail, and set a dot above it. "A semicolon," I said, "means the thing isn't finished yet. It means there is more coming, and you are going to tell her what it is."

So the letter said he was alive; and then it said the rescue crews were cutting through by Thursday; and then it said he had eaten bread and dripping and was sorry for the worry. Three clauses held together by that mark, like men holding a rope in the dark.

His mother's answer came back in a shaking hand, two pages long. At the bottom she had drawn a semicolon of her own, a heart sitting above it, and under that she had written, "Now you carry on."