Brkic, CourtneyEggerton, Virginia2021-10-04https://hdl.handle.net/1920/12101This thesis has been embargoed for 10 years. It will not be available until April 2031 at the earliest.Instructions for Coming Undone is a collection of short stories, prose poems, and other genre-bending works that explore how, and why, we fall apart. In it, a town faces the epidemic of a new, strange disease; a woman deals with the loss of yet another pregnancy; and the world mourns the missing moon.enShort storyLiteratureAnxietyGriefThesis