Otherness Stories

Is "privilege" synonymous with "honor"? or "advantage"? Perhaps it can be both.

A unique way to look at wildlife. Covers perspectives from three different views.

A collection of short stories spanning both time and place that explores the nature of humanity and society as it has been, is and will be.

This is a short story I wrote for my first writing assessment of year 11. It was based off ideas spoken about in Thandie Newton's TED Talk "Embracing Otherness, Embracing Myself" (https://www.ted.com/talks/thandie_newton_embracing_otherness_embracing_myself). I chose to write my story around her ideas raised about the self, and it being an ever changing projection of one's own mind. I hope you enjoy, and I welcome any (constructive) criticisms.

"Complexities of Heritage: Essays about Damira" is an introspective, critical, and deeply symbolic work that explores the intricate identity of Damira, a hybrid figure born between two opposing worlds: the human and the vampiric. Through a series of reflective essays, Eliah Roy Cade unfolds, with elegance and narrative rigor, the internal dilemmas, moral tensions, and existential challenges that emerge from this blood-bound duality. This volume is not a traditional story, but rather a literary meditation on inner conflict, belonging, otherness, and the construction of one's identity in a world that demands rigid definitions. Damira is not merely a bounty hunter or a supernatural being: she is a symbol of resistance, a mirror of contradictions, and an emblem of the search for meaning amid rejection, solitude, and transformation. From the forging of her character to the painful path toward accepting her singular nature, these essays outline a complex and luminous figure who defies the limits of blood, race, and inherited morality. With clear, profound, and stylistically refined language, Cade offers a work that engages with universal themes such as identity, purpose, cultural conflict, and the shaping of the self. A testament of struggle and affirmation. A manifesto for those who walk among shadows and seek their place beneath the sun.

All fiction is a masquerade... ~ Jay Griffiths. Short stories that I have written throughout the years, all in one place. I might be feeding you the truth or lies. You'll never know. Read at your own risk. P.S The ones with a heart at the start of the chapter are my personal favourite. HIGHEST RANKING: #674 IN SHORT STORY HIGHEST RANKING: in #451 IN INSPIRED HIGHEST RANKING: #141 IN MENTAL