The Brothers We Chose
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| Ombak Awan and Geoffrey Dempsey have been close for many years. |
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| Family portraits taken in Sydney (left) and Kuala Lumpur (right). |
CONTENTS
Book series for The Brothers We Chose.
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| Aerial view of The Scots College before 2023. Just how it looked in the 1990s and 2000s for Geoffrey's and Ombak's lives there. |
The Brothers We Chose is a novel blog
series. It was originally published in 2014, but more stories were also added gradually later in the successive years.
Click on on the below link to start the story. To start with Book I, please click on the BOOK I — Before We Had Words heading link.
BOOK I — Before We Had
Words
Before they know how to name what connects them, Geoffrey Douglas and Ombak Awan learn how to wait for one another across distance, culture, and time. Through letters, chance reunions, and the careful rituals of school and family life, a quiet continuity forms without promises or declarations. This book traces how familiarity is built slowly, and how some bonds begin not with intensity, but with patience.
Book I asks: What holds when nothing is yet demanded?
BOOK II — What We Learnt to Carry
As adolescence deepens into belonging, Geoffrey and Ombak navigate friendship, loyalty, and difference within the shared world of school, family, and expectation. Home becomes something negotiated rather than inherited, shaped by cultural boundaries, chosen silences, and mutual protection. What they offer each other is not escape, but steadiness.
Book II asks: Who are we allowed to become when we are seen clearly?
Adulthood brings pressure that cannot be ignored: institutions intrude, bodies falter, and silence begins to cost more than it protects. Geoffrey and Ombak must confront what it means to stand beside one another when patience is no longer enough. This is the book where continuity is tested, not by betrayal, but by consequence.
Book III asks: What does it mean to stay when staying has a price?
In the aftermath of reckoning, Geoffrey and Ombak learn how to live with what cannot be undone. The world grows quieter, but not simpler, as grief, repair, and chosen futures take shape. This final book is not about resolution, but about what remains when the storm has passed.
Book IV asks: How do we continue after truth has spoken?
Please note: While The Scots College is a real
institution, all characters and events in this story are fictional. Any
reference to real individuals, such as Dr. Robert Iles, is made respectfully in
a ceremonial or public context. No real events or actions are implied.
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