My short story ‘The Best Way to Kill A Butterfly’ has been published in Unthology 10 by Unthank Books. The anthology is edited by Ashley Stokes, Robin Jones and Daniel Carpenter.

“Tumble over a cliff in pursuit of a cherished plaything. Stray into bear territory. Scrape a drunk from the gutter. Ride the airstreams with a winged demigod. Receive a letter from a stranger. Meet a woman with a bite mark on her face. Assume the waters can be stopped. Survive the butterfly invasion. Grieve for another man’s child. Sell twenty-four copies of dross. Inherit your father’s gifts. Succumb to your drug of choice. Watch helpless at the vanishing of the herd. Imagine the giant horses. Fight or flight.

New Fiction from: Daniel Carpenter, Elaine Chiew, Brian Coughlan, KM Elkes, Tracy Fells, Liam Hogan, Maxim Loskutoff, Mark Mayes, Jay Merill, Valerie O’Riordan, Gareth E Rees, Kathryn Simmonds, Hannah Stevens, Tom Vowler.”

Head here to get your hands on the collection.

Thank you to the brilliant editors and well done to everyone involved in this brilliant collection.

Thank you also to Ross Jeffery for this excellent review of my story:

‘The Best Way to Kill a Butterfly by Hannah Stevens… by far my favourite title of the collection, for obvious reasons alone. There is the loss of a child in Stevens piece, a theme … in many of the stories, but there is more here to be said. In a fashion similar to Robert Aickman and even Daphne du Maurier, Stevens pulls us into [her] world, but with a few notes of the unfamiliar. A relationship between Tess and Michael that unfolds alongside the summer where butterflies invade – an invasion that, like most ‘weird’ writing, is never explained, and quite rightly too. There are some answers the reader should never find. The addition of a woman who ran away to be with a circus clown is just as deliciously odd.’