Acceptance Speech
LAUREL MARCEL

MY DEAR SISTERS:

Thank you, thank you for your validation, your empathy, your understanding of the depths of my lover's utter and complete LAMENESS. Writing about that sordid, wholly unsatisfying episode did me wonders. I had repressed it since the days I toiled in the nation's capital among masses of male vermin. My sisters, you have given me something better than group therapy: a platform for my rage and the opportunity to "out" that two-bit Casanova in a national magazine! You will be happy to know that upon learning that I was crowned QUEEN FOR A DAY, I dug up that PENCIL DICK's e-mail address in a government directory and sent him the URL for the piece. I have yet to hear back ...
SALON | April 14, 1998

Drama Queen for a Day + Charissa Reid + Laurel Marcel + Madame Anonymous