Birds of a Feather

"Birds of a Feather: short stories & miscellany" is the debut work of fiction by Arik Bjorn, who ran for U.S. Congress as the 2016 Democratic Party / Green Party fusion candidate for South Carolina's 2nd Congressional District. With these five short stories and one slaphappily true essay, the author responds to his fundamentalist Christian background and counters with rebel angels ("Indiana"), resurrected humanists ("Vonnegut Lives ") and imbibing ministers ("Birds of a Feather")-plus divinely-disappeared red states and farting orange tabbies. Bjorn imagines a fresh Christian mythology that runs M bius strip circles around the apocalyptic-poppycock fiction of Frank Peretti and the Left Behind series.