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Hi, I’m Carlos Vieira. I write stories about identity, belonging, and the systems that shape who we become.

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New Essay

Who Gets to Call This Truth?

We all know this story.
But not everyone believes the same truth.

Every Easter, many people return to the same story.

A story of suffering.
Sacrifice.
Forgiveness.
Redemption.

But what happens when a story feels so powerful,
so familiar,
so sacred,
that it stops feeling like one version among many
and starts to feel like truth itself?

This new piece sits with Easter, The Passion of the Christ,
and the deeper question underneath both:

Who gets to decide what feels true?

Read the essay

Borrowed Identity

A Novel of Belonging, Deception, and Becoming

How far can someone go to feel recognised?

Mara has grown up on the edges of certainty, moving through foster homes, temporary rooms, and places where nothing lasts long enough to feel real. Stability has always belonged to someone else.

When she discovers she has a twin sister, Lina, raised in safety and affection she never knew, the revelation unsettles everything she understands about herself.

Through a chain of quiet decisions, Mara steps into Lina’s world. A message sent under the wrong name becomes an opening into tenderness, trust, and the fragile possibility of being seen differently.

But borrowed belonging has a cost.

As her connection with Jonas deepens, Mara must confront the question beneath the lie: who is she when no one is mistaking her for someone else?

Borrowed Identity is a character-driven literary novel about longing, recognition, adoption, foster care, and the delicate line between reinvention and self-erasure. It explores what it means to be chosen, to be claimed, and ultimately, to choose oneself.

Borrowed Identity