Dissonance

Out now on Kindle & Kindle Unlimited

In this multi-genre collection of short stories and flash fiction, Atlas Blaine grapples with varying manifestations of the inharmonious. Be it a departure from reality, a grinding of two souls against one another, or a clashing of human nature with itself, each story inhabits a different sphere of dissonance and probes its shadows.

In “Wyoming,” Blaine contends with the poison that is intergenerational trauma through the eyes of a narrator whose youth was stripped away far too soon. “How To Kill Two Birds With One Stone” provides an all-too-literal guide to calculated murder, while in “Hunger,” a post-apocalyptic warrior scours the desert for the mutant beasts that feed his people, only to refuse his one chance at survival.

With experimental touches and themes intertwining across genres, Dissonance is saturated with Blaine’s affinity for darkness, seeking to disturb and invade the mind through a dissection of the most integral facets of humankind.