"It was then that I decided to organize my first really chaotic party..." Parties do lots of things in literature. They offer feasts for the senses. They suspend the rules governing everyday life. The lavish balls, weddings, soirees, fetes and banquets of literary classics like Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby are both events and pretexts for more events: challenging a rival, attracting a lover, revealing a secret, or playing cruel pranks on unsuspecting guests. In the thick of planning her own extravagant wedding party, Casey reads, with some attempts at regional accents, two tales of lavish and unusual Parties. Which one do YOU think is the Non-Existent story?