Black script lettering reading Stay Gold with swirls and an infinity symbol, tattooed on the inside of a wrist.

Stay Gold script lettering on a wrist

Lettering · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A close photograph of the inner wrist showing the words Stay Gold in black, flowing script with decorative swirls and a looped infinity symbol beneath. The lines are smooth and solid black with no visible shading. The skin is pale and the background is a blurred white surface with a dark edge at the top left.

Lettering Forearm Script Lettering Infinity symbol Swirl Quote

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Tom, the road out past Calico has no shade and no signal, so this letter will sit in my glovebox until I find a post office with a working stamp machine. The man at the petrol station in Baker sold me a bottle of water and a map older than you are. He asked where I was headed. I said east, and he laughed as if I'd told him a joke.

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Dad's truck is still making that clicking noise, the one you always said meant a loose belt and a bad temper. I pulled onto the dry lake bed just to listen to nothing for a while. Three hawks turned slowly over the sage, and I thought about the morning you left for the coast with your duffel bag and that stupid grin, and how you swore you'd send a postcard from every town with a decent pie.

I have exactly one postcard, from Eureka, with a lighthouse on the front and two words under your signature. It's tucked in the sun visor, where the glare keeps catching it. I know what Dad would have said about those words, and I know you meant them the way he did, so I'll write them back to you in ink like you always wanted: stay gold, you soft-hearted idiot. The road loops back eventually. Come home before the porch paint peels any further, and I'll buy the pie.