Traditional style tattoo of a winking woman in a patterned headscarf with a banner reading NEVER AGAIN, on an upper arm.

Winking pin-up with Never Again banner on upper arm

Traditional · Upper arm · Mixed · Photo

A winking woman with dark curled hair and a patterned headscarf is drawn in bold black outline with grey shading. A small blue tear sits below one eye, and a banner beneath her reads NEVER AGAIN. The tattoo sits on a bare upper arm against a pale background.

Traditional Upper arm Woman Pin-up Headscarf Bandana Banner Text Tear Portrait

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A story inspired by this tattoo · fiction

Lena Hollis had the press going before the sun cleared the far hedge, because Dennis from the Pilling place had come round twice already asking whether the Bramleys were ready, and she was done being polite about it. The orchard ran down to the river in rows so straight you could sight a rifle along them. Wasps had found the windfalls, and the air smelled of sugar going sour.

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Her mother had painted the sign on the barn door the summer the cider fund collapsed: a grinning woman with curled hair knotted in a checked scarf, one eye shut in a wink, and beneath her a ribbon of red letters that had faded to pink under forty years of weather. NEVER AGAIN, it said. Her mother had called it a joke for the men who bought by the jug. Nobody laughed except the men.

Dennis arrived with a crate of empties and a grievance. 'Your lot short-changed the Michaelmas order.' Lena didn't argue. She went into the barn, took down the tin of ochre and the brush with its splayed bristles, and found the jar of blue ink her mother had kept for labels. She dabbed a single tear beneath the painted eye, a little heavy for a joke.

By dusk the sign was fresh. Dennis read it twice, shrugged, and bought a jug anyway. Lena watched him go down the lane with the last of the sun on the river, and thought the tear suited the old woman on the door far better than the wink ever had.