Introduction

from Tiger by Colin Bramwell

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lyrics

Hello you. I hope you are doing well, and if you’re not doing well, I hope that what follows gives you an entertaining distraction from whatever is bothering you. Thank you for listening to this story. I hope you enjoy it, and I’m sorry I can’t be there to perform it for you in person. I normally tell it in front of an audience but I can’t second guess where you’re listening from. Maybe you’re at work. Maybe you’re at home.

Where is your home? Maybe it’s where you were born, or where you lived now? Is it both? Is home more than one place for you?

Do you remember leaving home? Do you remember how that felt? I remember feeling so happy. Like my life was just beginning.

Have you ever left home, and found yourself having to come back sooner than you’d wanted to? That’s Kathy’s experience. Let me tell you about her. She’s 19 years old, just finished her first year of university. All her friends are in Thailand, but she couldn’t afford to go. She couldn’t even afford to stay in Glasgow, so she’s come home to her small town in the Highlands.

One last question. When you have to come home, and you don’t want to be there, what method do you use to cope with it? Do you drink a lot? Take a long walk? Take something harder than alcohol? Kathy’s from the internet generation, so naturally she wants to have her cake and eat it. She’s decided to do all three. She’s spent her night on the beach, with some cans of cider and a few tabs of acid. Just by herself. On a solo mission. Where she lives is beautiful, there’s a forest right next to the beach. When you feel adventurous, do you stay on the beach or do you go into a dark forest? Naturally. In she goes.

She gets a message from her friends in Thailand. One of them’s been to one of those tiger sanctuaries. As soon as the message arrives, her phone dies. That’s where this story begins.