Black monoline lettering on a white background spelling WARR;OR, with a semicolon in place of the letter I, in a lettering tattoo design.

Spaced lettering reading WARR;OR

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows the word WARR;OR set in spaced capital letters, with a semicolon standing where the letter I would be. The letters are drawn in black with a uniform, fairly thin monoline stroke and rounded terminals. The design sits centred on a plain white background with no skin, shading or colour visible.

Lettering Fine line Warrior Semicolon Word Text Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The stencil board for the Strongman booth had been cut by Alfie Dunn the night before the Hastings fair, and I didn't notice the fault until I was three letters into the gold leaf. The knife had slipped on the plank, or Alfie had been drinking, and where the I should have gone sat a semicolon, fat-dotted and smug. WARR;OR, the canvas said.

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Mrs Pell came round the back of the waltzer with a tea urn and a face like a closed ledger. 'Scrape it,' she said. 'Customers pay for WARRIOR, not punctuation.' I said I could do that. I had the razor blade in my hand. But the sun had come up over the dodgems, the paint was tacky and warm, and I stood there looking at it longer than was sensible.

A semicolon, I told her, is what you use when a sentence isn't finished yet. You could stop there, but you don't have to. Mrs Pell sniffed and said I'd been reading the wrong books in the caravan again. Then she went off to shout at the ponies, and I left the banner alone.

That night the strongman, a quiet man from Lodz who lifted a piano for a shilling, stood under the lights and read the sign aloud, slowly, the way you read a dare. He laughed once, then didn't. 'Leave it,' he said. 'Looks like something's still coming.'