Two photos of black ink lettering tattoos: one on the back of a lower leg, one on an ankle, with the words shown upside down in the frame.

Upside-down words on leg and ankle

Lettering · Calf · Black and grey · Photo

The left photograph shows the back of a leg with the words I'm and FINE tattooed in black script, which appear upside down to the viewer. The right photograph shows a bare foot and ankle with the words SAVE ME in black lettering, also upside down in the frame. Both use simple black linework on skin against plain carpet and bedding backgrounds.

Lettering Calf Ankle Word Script Text

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Across the lost property counter, Dennis Marr had learned to read everything upside down. Passengers slid their tickets toward him the wrong way round, and he could tell a fare dispute from a grief by how the paper lay. On Tuesday it was an envelope addressed in capitals to the station master, the postmark smudged past reading.

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He turned it the right way, as he always did, and found only two words pressed in pencil on the back of a platform timetable: SAVE ME. Beneath them, in neater writing, someone had added I'M FINE, as though the second line had been written to cancel the first. Dennis knew the timetable's cover had come off the 6:14 to Carlisle, because he had been the one to stamp it on the Monday.

He rang the signal box. Ruth Pennant answered on the fourth ring, sounding out of breath. "Is anyone on the 6:14 bench?" he asked. She said the platform clock had stopped at ten past six again, the way it did every morning until someone kicked it, and that nobody had been sitting there since the rain started.

Dennis walked out with the timetable in his coat pocket. The bench was empty except for a flask and a single glove, palm up, its fingers curled as if it had just let go of something. He sat down, turned the timetable over, and wrote beneath both lines in his own hand: Found. The train was late, as trains are, and for once that felt like mercy.