“New York author Shelley Jackson plans to ‘publish’ her short story ‘Skin’ by having each word tattooed on a different person.
Volunteers are pouring in from all over the world – bookshop assistants from London, mothers and daughters from Nebraska, artists from Brazil, a man in Bangkok. There will be ifs, buts, ands and other words inscribed on heads, arms, legs and backs from Birmingham, England to Birmingham, Alabama.”