Two side-by-side photos of a realistic colour tattoo of a slice of toast on the inner forearm, one with purple jam and one with golden toast.

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Toast tattoos on the forearm

Realism · Forearm · Colour · Photo

The image shows two photographs of a tattoo of a slice of toast on the inner wrist or forearm. The left version has a purple jam or fruit spread with dark seed-like dots, while the right version shows a golden brown toasted slice with a textured crust. Both use smooth shading, dark outlines and realistic detail, and the arm is shown against pavement.

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Now, you want the bread story, and the bread takes its time, same as everything at the Hollin crossing. It was past two in the morning when Marta Vell, who had worked that hut for thirty-one years, waved in a delivery lorry full of white loaves from the north. The driver, a thin man called Tomas with a moustache like a broom, was sweating through his collar. In the cab with him sat a single jar of blackcurrant jam, wrapped in a grey sock.

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"For my mother," he said. "She is ill. It is the last jar she made before the orchard was sold." Marta had heard a hundred such stories and believed perhaps four of them. She unscrewed the lid, dipped a butter knife, and tasted it. The jam was dark and sharp, with those little seeds that catch between your teeth, and it tasted of a summer she had not had in years.

"Well," she said, and switched on the grill in the back of the hut. She toasted two slices of the driver's own bread until the edges went the colour of old copper, then spread the jam thick and purple over one, and butter over the other. She ate the jam slice herself, standing up, while the lorry idled outside and the rain came sideways off the fence.

"Your mother's tree," she asked, chewing, "does it grow on the other side of the wire?" Tomas nodded slowly. It did. Marta had known that orchard from the watchtower for thirty years. Everyone had.

She stamped his papers without another question. When the lorry had gone, she found the second slice on the windowsill, still warm, half buttered and forgotten. Nobody at Hollin had ever questioned the bread, and she had never once asked what was in it.