In “The Husband Stitch” by Carmen Maria Machado and “Once Upon a Time in Georgia” by Aka Morchiladze, two authors with vastly different cultural backgrounds examine social, historical, and political changes in their countries through the same surreal postmodern lens. Their writing styles, focusing primarily on metafiction and intertextuality, create a divide in their character's views of reality; the two authors weave varying forms of media through their writings to achieve this divide. While both authors have lived vastly different lives, their pasts allow them to understand reality’s ability to change over time. Machado’s understanding of womanhood began changing after splitting from the religious and societal views of who a woman, wife, or mother should be, as reflected in “The Husband Stitch.”  Morchiladze’s understanding of society as a whole changed after watching Georgia break from Soviet control and be reborn into democracy, as reflected in “Once Upon a Time in Georgia.” While the difference in lifestyles divide the context of their writing, the authors’ understanding of changing ideals unites them in their ability to create worlds with a misguided understanding of existence. The literary aspects of postmodernism evident in both works create a sense of dissociation and cause the question perceptions of the real world through the use of intertextuality and meta fiction. Machado and Morchiladze discover new and exciting ways to touch on dissociation through postmodern literature. Machado discovers it through urban legends by creating an unreliable, story-telling narrator who jumps from tale to tale to relate their feelings to the world around them. Morchiladze finds it through film by relating the struggles of soviet-controlled Georgia to the actors, directors, and producers who came to visit the country. Both authors successfully draw connections from characters to reality through the media they consume through postmodernist aspects of writing.