A woman in a standing split yoga pose shows a small black script lettering tattoo on her ribs, in black and grey ink.

Standing split pose with small rib lettering

Lettering · Ribs · Black and grey · Photo

A woman with long blonde hair, head tilted down, balances in a standing split yoga pose against a plain grey backdrop. She wears a red and black sports bra and patterned leggings, and a small black script lettering tattoo is visible on her side above the waistband. The tattoo is in black ink with fine, even linework, and the full-length studio composition keeps the body and tattoo clearly in view.

Lettering Ribs Script Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The ferry only comes on Tuesdays now, so this letter will sit in the post office at Ardmor until Mairi finds a reason to walk down to the pier. I am writing it at the kitchen table with the good pen you left behind, the one that makes lines so fine you have to lean in to read them.

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Grandda's boat is still on the slip. Nobody has had the heart to paint over the name he gave it, though the letters have weathered to the grey of the stones. I went down on Sunday with a tin of black enamel and a brush no thicker than a hair, meaning to touch up the R, and found I could not make the strokes straight without your steady hand. In the end I only sat on an upturned creel and watched the tide turn.

Last night the wind got under the roof slates and I lay awake counting the lighthouse flashes through the curtain. Somewhere around three I remembered the word you wrote on my arm the summer before you left, the one Father called nonsense. I still do not know what it means, so I took the dictionary down by the lamp and found nothing, which I suppose makes it ours.

I am sending you the R I painted, a single stroke that looks like a bird landing. Come home on the Tuesday boat, and bring the pen.