"Birds of a Feather: short stories & miscellany" is the debut work of fiction by Arik Bjorn, creator of Pastor Pillow and the Christian Right Weekly Round-Up. 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 Mobius strip circles around the apocalyptic-poppycock fiction of Frank Peretti and the Left Behind series. Arik Bjorn lives in South Carolina. He is a graduate of Evangelical Ground Zero, Wheaton College. Visit his website, VikingWord, to read his articles at Forward Progressives and Patheos, as well as his fiction and personal blog, The Viking & the River Horse. You can follow Arik Bjorn on Twitter { @arikbjorn } and on Facebook."