Black and grey fine line tattoo of a treble clef at the nape with musical notes and small stars trailing down the upper back.

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Treble clef and musical notes down the back

Fine line · Neck · Black and grey · Photo

A bare back is shown from behind, with the head and hair partly visible at the top of the frame. A treble clef sits at the nape, followed by a scattered trail of small musical notes and star shapes that curves down across the shoulder blade and towards the lower back. The fine, thin linework is in black ink on a monochrome photograph with soft, low lighting.

Fine line Neck Back Treble clef Musical note Music Star

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Dilys kept the radio on low while she worked the first batch, because the only company at four in the morning was the hiss of the proving cabinet and the tick of cooling tins. The station played a hymn tune she half knew, and she hummed the bass line into the dough as her hands folded it over and over, the way her father had taught her in a Swansea kitchen that smelled of coal smoke and yeast.

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Owen came in at twenty to five with rain still on his jacket and found her dusting the steel bench with a flour sieve, then drawing through the pale layer with one finger. A curl at the top, then a scatter of quavers she could no longer read properly, then small stars where the icing sugar had caught the light. He told her to stop mucking about, the bread wasn't going to rise itself. She said it was the tune her father used to whistle on the stairs, and she was trying to keep it in the bench before it went out of her head like everything else did.

They baked without talking after that. When Owen went to sweep the bench, the marks had blurred into nothing, but there was a faint trail of flour across the tiles, from the bench to the back door, as though the melody had got up and walked out into the yard. He stood looking at it with the broom in his hand.

By the time the last loaf came out, the sky above the car park had gone from black to the colour of wet slate. Dilys set the tin on the sill, where a single grain of sugar still sat, catching the first grey light like a star that had forgotten to go out.