Short stories about identity and belonging

These short stories about identity could address it in several ways: mistaken identity, concealing a true identity, people figuring out who they are, people trying to fit in, and any other way that identity is an important issue. I hope you find a great short story here about identity and belonging. The stories with PDF links are noted.

Identity story examples

See also:. The popular girl, Summer, started talking to her, which led to her breaking the household rules and ending up in the back of a van. Joey has a newfound celebrity status at school. The narrator, Zaida, is a seventeen-year-old girl living on Mars. She has billions of followers who look forward to her updates.

Short stories about identity

Her parents want her to go to Harvard. Zaida goes out on inspection duty with her best friend, Keiko. One of the airlocks blows, hitting Keiko and damaging her suit. A young American Indian man, lonely and disillusioned with school, leaves for home to be with his own people again. As soon as they enter the country, the Immigration officer pronounces it wrong.

This continues through the years. Four fifteen-year-olds head for a ravine where a boy has recently died. The narrator was born with water on the brain.