The Words My Girlfriends Have Tattooed on Their Bodies

Their lives speak through their ink

Kim McKinney
ILLUMINATION-Curated
10 min readNov 22, 2022

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Photo by Sherman Yang on Unsplash

I was visiting a friend and saw she had gotten a tattoo. I could only make out a few words, so asked to see the whole quote and hear her tattoo story.

I love tattoo stories. I am that person who asks strangers to see their tattoos and then tell me why they chose what they did. You learn…

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Kim McKinney
ILLUMINATION-Curated

A non-niche writer who loves a good story. My ADHD mind thinks way too much for its own good, but I have grown to love it. An idea person.