Harmonic Dissonance

by Gordon Blitz

Overview

Harmonic Dissonance is about two married couples -- (straight) Elle and Patrick and (gay) Corey and Noah. Patrick and Noah have dementia and are at the same Memory Care facility. During their stay, Patrick and Noah form a sexual relationship even though Patrick is straight. Both no longer recognize their spouses. The novel explores the impact on Elle and Corey as they confront the impact of Alzheimer's on their marriages; the way their roles have changed. Elle and Corey are forced to form a bond with each other-as a coping mechanism. Elle ponders whether her husband has been a closeted gay man during their marriage. Corey and Noah's adopted son is missing in Afghanistan, making Corey deal with another potential loss in his life without the support of his husband, Noah. Music is used as a backdrop because the auditory system of the brain is fully functional at 16 weeks. We appreciate and understand music before anything else. With dementia, music is the last brain function to die. In other words, first in and last out.

Harmonic Dissonance is part of The Shortish Project, celebrating short novels at theshortishproject.com.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798987839850
Publisher:	The Shortish Project
Publication date:	03/28/2023
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

From a young child, Gordon Blitz was called a sissy, girlie, fag, queer, and homo. Getting towel whipped, stomach punched and spit on were part of his world. His father, who died after Gordon’s Bar Mitzvah, berated him with shouts of “walk straight.” Gordon never found his writer’s voice until he retired in 2017 from forty years of accounting and became a passionate writing machine. In 2021 his novel Shipped Off was published as part of the Running Wild Press Novella Anthology Volume 4, Book 1. His second novel Fathers and Other Strangers was published in February 2022. Gordon participated in the filming of Queers Across the Years as a writer and performer. Ten of his autobiographical stories are available on the Queer Slam Episode 21, podcast called “Just Gordon.” Gordon wrote and performed in Queerly Imparted at the Skylight Theater in Los Angeles as part of the World AIDS Day celebration. His play Reflections was chosen and presented at the Region 8 KCACTF (IN PERSON) festival-Las Vegas.