Two black script lettering designs on a white background, one in flowing copperplate style and one in a looser handwritten style, shown as a design rather than on skin.

Two lettering designs in black script

Lettering · Black and grey · Flash

The image shows two separate words written in black ink on a plain white background. The upper word uses a flowing, connected script with varied stroke thickness and decorative loops, while the lower word uses a simpler, more upright handwritten style with even strokes. There is no shading, colour or body part visible, so the piece reads as a lettering design sheet.

Lettering Script Word Handwriting Lettering

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

The ink on the card had faded to the colour of weak tea, but Ruth could still see the loop her mother put under every capital, the stroke that swept back beneath the word like a hand reaching for a cup. She had never managed it. Her own letters came out square and cross, the way Mr Partridge at the village school liked them, and her mother would tap the page and sigh that a girl's hand should have some curl in it.

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Miama was the word her mother used for the kitchen garden, the rows of beans and the bent gooseberry bush by the wall. She said it to the bees and to the cat and never once explained it. Pecila was what her brother Tom scratched into the damp cement of the shed step the summer he was six, and nobody ever asked him what it meant either. He had gone to sea at seventeen and sent three postcards in twelve years, each one addressed in capitals.

Ruth found the two words on the same afternoon, one on the back of a seed packet and one on the inside of the biscuit tin lid, and she sat at the scrubbed table with a pencil for an hour trying to join them. Her mother's loop would not come. Tom's plain strokes kept standing up straight. In the end she wrote them out the way they came, one above the other, with a gap between them about the width of her thumb, and she left the gap empty. Then she posted the card to a ship's agent in Hull, not knowing whether it would ever reach him.