Black Butterflies : A Flock on the Dark Side — John Shirley

Some nightmares are strangely sweet, unnaturally appealing. Some dark places gleam like onyx, like the sixteen stories in John Shirley's Black Butterflies, stories never before collected, including the award-nominated 'What Would You Do for Love?' These stories are like the jet-black butterflies Shirley saw in a dream. They flocked around him, and if he tried to ignore them they would cut him to shreds with their razor-sharp wings. Shirley had to write these stories or the black butterflies would cut him up from the inside and flutter out from the wound...into the world.