Black and white photo of a small fine line treble clef tattoo on the inner wrist and lower forearm, with a leather jacket sleeve at the bottom of the frame.

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Treble clef on a wrist

Fine line · Forearm · Black and grey · Photo

A small treble clef is tattooed on the inner wrist and lower forearm of a person whose arm is raised toward the top of the frame. The linework is clean and uniform in solid black ink, with no shading. The photograph is black and white, with a blurred street and building background and a black leather jacket sleeve around the wrist.

Fine line Forearm Treble clef Music Musical notation

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Mind the puddle by the fish stall, it has been there since the Mayor's grandfather was a boy, and it knows more than the council does. Sit under the awning, friends, the rain is only water and the cabbages are not going anywhere. Now, the old men of Saltergate used to say that the bell-ringer at St Ann's had a daughter who could hear the tune inside a sparrow's quarrel. Her name was Marta Fenn, and she sold eels by the river gate every Thursday, humming through her teeth so the gulls would not steal her change.

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One wet morning a tinker came up from the wharf with a tin box full of quills and a bottle of something green. He said he had lost the staff of music that his mother had carried across three counties, the five lines and the little curling key that tells a voice where to start. Marta laughed at him. Then she looked at the rain running down the awning rope, and saw it fall in beats, and she stopped laughing. She drew the key on the back of an eel receipt with a stub of charcoal, a single loop with a dot tucked at its heel, and she put it on his wrist with a thorn dipped in ink, because that was the only needle she owned.

The tinker walked off into the drizzle singing a song nobody on that market had heard before. Ask the fishmongers and they will tell you the eels went quiet for a week. And if you ever pass Marta's old stall and find the puddle has gone still, take off your hat and listen, because somewhere under the cobbles the first note is waiting for someone to begin it.