Part(y) Anxiety

Post-COVID parties? Yes, we know: nerve-wracking. That’s how parties might seem after this pandemic. Write, then, like Erin does about a party that gives a protagonist some anxious, troubling feeling. Are you putting on a pair of flip flops for a scene, a rite of passage, that is as prevalent as it is unfamiliar to you? What is something so banal that a sense of apprehension stemming from it makes the apprehension itself more banal, more worrying?