I Remembered a Storm-tossed Night

Author's Note

First and foremost, I would like to thank all the readers who have had the patience to survive my initial confusing writing to when the plot started to materialize. Now that I looked back on it, it really was an amazing thing that so many of you actually made it up to that point. A tribute to your patience; I lift a toast to you.

I have tried to rectify my mistakes, with some minor cosmetic changes and merging of chapters. I am not sure how successful I was. But I hope you will find it a clearer presentation than before.

For JD, who pointed out that I have to let the reader know that this story was about the brothers by chapter two, latest three, else they lost interest. That was good advice, and I have tried to do just that by merging the chapters and added some minor modifications. So it is now clear who is who by chapter two.

For Red Hardy, I absolutely appreciated your comments on the POV aspects on my writing. What you said was totally correct. I wished I could fix it. But I could not, not at the moment. So I have to do this instead. From now on, all Joe's POV will be first person narrative, using 'I'. Frank's POV will be in third person limited omniscient [1. All other characters' POV will be in third person omniscient [2. And thanks also for pointing out that Mother's Day always falls on Sunday. I did not know that and had assumed that it fell on a weekday for the sake of this story. I will make the necessary note at the relevant chapter.

To Liz, thank you for being my sounding board and also for your wonderful suggestions. And also for your help in drawing out Frank's character and personality.

To Metascrawler and RagnaIce: It is still cold and wet and dreary over here. And I do want more than the occasional ray of sunshine that comes my way.

Thanks again to all reviewers, your comments were great. And I hope you will continue to enjoy this story as it unfolds.

Cheers, Jolly.

Ps: "NB: I am not sure if things are starting to clear up. Once I interviewed
Tsai Ming Liang, an award winning film director. He said he do not believe in
telling the audience everything, but let the audience think for themselves. I
thought I'd tried something similar - is this an experimental writing gone
wrong? Perhaps one should never make the reader work too hard ... next chapter
will have the proper names in the proper place to definitely clear up who is
who in chapter one and two..." lol - I admit this experimental didn't quite work out... but then it stills intrigues me... so just wondering, would anyone be interested in a story that will let you play this guessing which brother game until the last chapter when the answer will be known? Like for a short story, no more than 5 or 6 chapters? pls pm if interested.