I AM THE RISE
1 Lydia Whitecliff keeps to herself in Unit 602. She’s my oldest resident. Silver haired, partial to crochet. Quiet. Not a troublesome tenant. A proud native to This City. It’s…
Author: jj de Melo
JJ de Melo is a queer, Filipino-American and Portuguese writer with creative writing training from the City College of San Francisco. He has had work published in Sci-Fi Shorts, Fiction on the Web, Space & Time, and Literally Stories. In 2025, he won the editor's choice award for fiction from Forum Magazine.