The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, September-October 2020 Quotes

“I barely managed to suppress my snort. The most important thing a woman could be was beautiful, and he knew it as well as I. It was in the stories we told, in the songs we sang—and it was there because those things came from deep within us, from a turning toward beauty that no person was immune from. Too deep to extract, too solid to ignore.”
― C.C. Finlay, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2020

“There is this about lifts and elevators. People become resigned and indifferent. They fall silent and stare at the numbers, unable to acknowledge the existence of any others who might momentarily share the same space—it is the latency spell of the enclosure. People retreat into their internal spaces as a defense against the collapse of personal boundaries.”
― C.C. Finlay, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September/October 2020