Close photo of a small black ornamental swirl tattoo with two dots on the side of a finger, in a fine line style.

Small swirl tattoo on a finger

Fine line · Hand · Black and grey · Photo

A small black tattoo of looping scrollwork with two dots sits across the side of a middle finger. The lines are thin and even, with curling ends that form a stylised ornament. The image is in black ink only, shown against a dark green background with black nail polish on the fingertips.

Fine line Hand Swirl Scrollwork Dot Ornament

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Ada had the grafting knife out before the wasps had finished with the windfalls, and she worked the way her father had taught her, a long slanting cut on the rootstock, then the scion shaved to match so the green cambium lay against green. Behind her the orchard ran downhill in rows nobody had straightened since the war. Late August light came sideways through the Bramley trees and lay in bars across the grass.

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"You'll slip it," said Mr Pryce from the gate, not unkindly. He leaned on the rail with his hat pushed back and watched her hands the way he watched weather.

She didn't slip it. She bound the join with waxed cotton, wound in tight loops that curled off the stem like the peelings she'd shaved away, and when she finished she pressed two pips from the last Bramley into the soil at the foot of the stock, one either side, because her father had always planted a pair, one for the tree and one for whoever came after.

Pryce came up the slope slowly and crouched to look. "Takes three years before it fruits."

"Then I'll be here in three years," Ada said, and tied off the last knot. Pryce laughed, the first time she'd heard him laugh since the funeral, and the graft sat quiet in the sun.