Close view of a seated person's lower legs showing two small solid playing card suit tattoos, one a club and one a diamond, in dark red ink on the shins above black heels.

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Two small playing card suit tattoos on the legs

Calf · Colour · Photo

The photograph shows a seated person from the knees down, wearing a layered floral skirt and black heels with green detailing, on marble stairs. Two small tattoos sit on the front of the lower legs, one shaped like a club and one like a diamond. The ink appears as solid filled shapes in a dark reddish tone against pale skin, and the composition is centred on the legs and stairs.

Calf Club Diamond

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Nobody claimed the playing cards that turned up in lost property at Hollin Bridge. Mrs Pell sorted them into a biscuit tin every Friday: a jack of clubs bent at one corner, a nine of diamonds with a timetable pressed behind it, a two of spades that smelled of pipe smoke. She kept the tin under the counter beside the change float, because the station had a habit of losing things and then finding them again.

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One wet evening in March a young man came down the marble stairs from the footbridge two at a time, shouting that he had left something on the bench at platform four. He was out of breath and certain. Mrs Pell asked him to describe it. "A club and a diamond," he said. "Small. Painted, not printed." She lifted the lid, and the two cards lay on top, face up, as though they had been waiting for him.

He didn't take them at once. He turned the club over on his palm and said his grandfather had played patience on the Sunday trains for forty years, cutting the deck one-handed while the fields slid past. The cards had been a pair, he said, and he had only kept the two that matched the habit. Mrs Pell told him the rule: whatever the tin held for ninety days went to the charity shop on Cross Street. He had until Thursday.

He came back on Thursday with a new pack in cellophane and set it on the counter. "For the tin," he said. Mrs Pell slid the bent club and the faded diamond into his hand and took the new pack for herself. That night she laid out a game of patience on the counter under the lamp, and when the last card went down, the club and the diamond sat side by side at the bottom of the tableau, where anyone passing the window could see them.