A Red State Of Mind
Chapter One
What Is a Catfish Queen?
MANY GIRLS DREAM of fairy godmothers, glass slippers, and handsome
princes as they drift off to sleep under pink gingham quilts ...
but not the ones in Paris, Tennessee. We liked Cinderella, Sleeping
Beauty, and the Little Mermaid, of course, but our favorite princess
was no mass-marketed, consumer-oriented creation with figures
featured in the latest Happy Meal. Instead, we idolized a princess
who never went out of style. Year after year-as we graduated from
Slinkys to banana-seat bicycles to training bras to electric-blue
eye shadow and shirts inexplicably emblazoned with the Coca-Cola
logo-one thing stayed the same. We all dreamed of winning the crown
in the Fish Fry pageant, whether we admitted it or not.
I guess that's why I put on a rhinestone necklace and entered the
pageant. My dress was actually quite tame compared to the one I'd
later wear to the prom, which resembled the grisly aftermath of a
run-in between a mermaid and a sequin monster with a glue gun. The
dress I'd chosen for the pageant was royal-blue satin, with a ... read full excerpt from: A Red State of Mind: How a Catfish Queen Reject Became a Liberty Belle ebook
