Colour neo-traditional tattoo on the thigh showing a cartoon couple kissing inside an ornate scrolled frame, with a red and blue poisoned apple skull and purple beads.

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Snow White kiss in ornate frame on thigh

Neo-trad · Thigh · Colour · Photo

A colour tattoo on the outer thigh shows a cartoon-style couple kissing in profile, with the woman's face and dark hair framed by white flowers. The scene sits inside an ornate grey scrolled frame edged with purple beads, and a stippled dotwork background glints with small gold dots. A red and blue poisoned apple skull sits at the lower left, and bold outlines and flat, saturated fills give the piece a classic, illustrative look.

Neo-trad Dotwork Thigh Kiss Couple Apple Skull Frame Flower Bead Scrollwork

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

You are the one who bakes the apple tarts for the harvest fair, so you know the orchard path better than the priest does. Tonight the path is slick with rain and the lantern at the stile has gone out again, which is how you come to be kneeling in the bracken with the basket tipped on its side and a crimson fruit rolling away from you towards the dark trees.

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The fruit stops against a boot. The man above it has been walking the edge of the wood since the spring, a stranger with a clean cuff and a grey horse he never lets graze, asking the same question at every cottage: who keeps the old well? You had decided he was a surveyor. He does not look like one now. He looks at the apple, then at your mouth, as though he has been told the answer to something and is trying to remember the question.

Afterwards the village will say you slept for a year behind glass in the miller's loft, and that a rider came up the lane one morning and woke you with a kiss. You will not correct them. The truth is less pretty and more useful: you bit the apple because you wanted to see what he would do, and he was the one who was surprised to find you still breathing, and you were the one who bolted the loft door from the inside.