Traditional style colour tattoo of a red heart with a MOM banner, teal leaves and pink flowers on the skin of an upper limb.

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Traditional heart with MOM banner and flowers

Traditional · Other · Colour · Photo

A red heart with a silver-grey outline sits at the centre, with a banner reading MOM across it. Teal and dark green leaves, pink-red flowers and a flame-like shape surround the heart, all with bold black outlines. The bright colours are set against a plain, softly lit skin background with the tattoo filling most of the frame.

Traditional Other Heart Banner Mom Flower Leaves Flame

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The rain had been coming off the canal since six, and by eleven the tarpaulins over Lockside market were sagging like wet sheets. I was stacking buckets of sweet peas under my awning when Ray from the fish stall ran past with a crate on his head, shouting that the council man was coming round with his clipboard. I told him to let the council man count the puddles instead.

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The order was for forty red carnations, with dark green leaves tucked round them and a sprig of teal-dyed eucalyptus for the colour. The card was tucked under the cellophane, written in a child's capitals with the O drawn twice, as if the letters had needed reassuring. MOM, it said, and underneath, in smaller writing, SORRY ABOUT THE SHOUTING. I wrapped the stems in brown paper and wrote the price on the back in biro that kept skipping.

The boy came back at half past twelve, dripping, with a fistful of coins that smelled of the river. He had no money for the carnations, he said, only for one, and he wanted it from the bucket nearest the gate. I asked him who it was for. He looked at the rain for a while before he answered.

"The same person," he said, and held out his hand for the stem.