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TONY PARSONS
Catching the Sun
For Yuriko and Jasmine In sunshine and in shadow
‘… it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.’
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
‘Do good – get good. Do bad – get bad.’
Thai proverb
Table of Contents
Part One: Swimming With Elephants
Part Three: The Young Man and the Sea Gypsy
Part Four: Song of the Gibbons
Read on for one of Tony’s short stories from Departures
1
On the first day we watched the elephants come from the sea.
‘Look!’ Keeva cried. ‘Look at the sea!’
I sat up but I could see nothing. Just my daughter – Keeva, nine years old, stick thin, pointing out at a sea so calm it looked like a lake made of glass.
Tess, my wife, stirred beside me and sat up. She had been sleeping, worn out
