Bikers for God

There are twenty bikers in all.  They dress in black leather jackets and wear aviator sunglasses, as you would expect them to.  Beneath their World War I helmets, most have long hair pulled into ponytails that whip in the wind as they round sharp turns while riding in precise formation across America.  They utter very few words given the gravity of their mission, which is to clear streets and roads in preparation of the Apocalypse.

They ride through cities and countryside, picking up trash and tending to the homeless.  They escort widows and orphans to shelters and pass out bottled water and blankets to the thirsty and the naked.  They occasionally call numbers at Knights of Columbus bingo halls and try to keep order at outdoor rock concerts.

Mostly, they move abandoned cars off streets, roads, and highways so that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse will have a straight shot when they're ready to ride as thrones and dominions peel back the sky like the lid of a sardine can. 

When not on their Harleys, the bikers can usually be seen staring at the sky, waiting.

~William Hammett

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