Small black fine line tattoo of a simple symbol on the inner wrist of a hand, with a grey braided bracelet at the wrist.

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Small symbol tattoo on the inner wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A hand is shown palm up with a very small, single black tattoo of an angular symbol on the inner wrist. The linework is thin and solid with no shading, and the ink is dark grey-black against pale skin. The background is a soft pink-grey fabric, with the hand and a grey braided bracelet in the frame.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

By three in the morning the corridor on Ward 9 has gone the colour of weak tea, and you have counted the same bed numbers four times. Bed 14 is restless. Mr Haddow keeps reaching for a cup that isn't on his tray, so you draw the curtain, fold the blanket back over his knees and take his wrist between two fingers, the way Sister Okafor taught you in your first week, pressing until the pulse knocks against the bone.

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Beneath your thumb is the mark he got in 1961 at a parlour above a chip shop in Hull, a small angular thing like a bent key, the blue gone soft at the edges. He told you about it at midnight while you were checking his drip. He had been nineteen and skint, and the artist said a small thing was easier to forgive than a big one. He has never said what it means, and you have stopped asking.

He says a name that isn't yours, Edie, and asks whether the buses are running yet. You say they are, because it is easier than explaining the hour. Then his grip tightens on your hand, and for a moment you are both steady, two people keeping time in a room that is trying to go quiet.

At six, when the day staff come up the stairs with their coats still zipped, you find a cup of tea beside the sink that you never made, cold and full to the brim. You drink it anyway while the car park turns from black to grey.

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