Dani McClain

“I already knew everything that would go into a column making a case for saying in Oakland. The list would confirm my fears that I was an individualist to the bone, that I had turned into someone who placed personal comfort and loose camaraderie above the bonds of blood and going—instinctively, without the need to think it through—where family needs you and you know you need them.
If I couldn't be safe—and I couldn't, no one could—I should face the chaos shoulder to shoulder with the people whose love and care I'd been able to count on for decades, right?
And I should pick the place where those people were concentrated, yes? The answers should have been obvious, and I'd always thought that when push came to shove, I'd know what to do.
But they weren't and I didn't.”
― Dani McClain, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements

“But geography was not destiny. Nowhere was safe and nothing was infinite, and to impose a law predicated on an outdated belief in stability was immoral.”
― Dani McClain, Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements