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Three stick figures and hearts on an ankle

Ankle · Mixed · Photo

The left panel shows small black outline tattoos of three simple stick figures with hearts, placed on an ankle and a lower leg beside rolled denim and sandals. The right panel is a close-up of a similar three-figure design with the figures filled in with blue, pink and purple shading, outlined in black and surrounded by small hearts. The composition is a diptych, with the black linework version on the left and the coloured version on the right.

Ankle Calf Stick figure Heart Figure Outline

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

There was once a tower called Carrow House, twenty-two floors of grey concrete, and three women who shared the ninth-floor landing. Maud kept the spare key to the lift, Bea kept the pegs for the washing lines, and Ruth kept a tin of chalk for the children who came up to play in the stairwell when it rained.

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When the council letter came in March saying the block would come down by autumn, the three of them met at the bins with their coats still on. Maud wanted to fight it. Bea wanted to take the flat in Ashgate Road and be done with it. Ruth said nothing until the sky went orange over the ring road, then knelt by the bin store and drew three figures on the wall, arms linked, a heart floating above each head.

Every evening after that they went to the meetings and sat in the back row with their handbags on their knees. Every evening they came down to the bins and added a little more. Maud coloured the first figure blue for the lift key, Bea coloured the second pink for the pegs, and Ruth coloured the third purple for the chalk, and the children coloured in the hearts without being asked.

The block came down in November. The bin store did not, because nobody had thought to put it on the list. Ruth's great-niece walks past it now on her way to school, and the three figures still hold hands, faded but joined, and the hearts still crowd around them, though nobody will say which of the three women let the children have the last of the purple.