Remember the first boy you kissed? I do. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. I was fifteen. He was a senior. I wanted to grow up fast, but before I knew it, he was gone, moved away. I barely had a chance to say goodbye.

Len Koepsell’s new audiobook, The Golden Flyswatter? In case you were wondering, it’s not about a flyswatter. It’s my story, Natalie Schoenfeldt. It could have been called ‘What to do you do when your mother dies, your boyfriend dumps you and your father dies, all while you’re still in high school’. I know, it sounds like a teenage tragedy; lots of hand-wringing, wall-kicking and photo-tearing-into-pieces. Unless you’re a teenage girl, hating everything, why would you wanna download a story like that? Well, because it’s about a lot of cool stuff. It gets funny and it gets juicy.

I saved enough to buy Alfie, my first car, then took a chance and got out of Dodge. ‘Dodge’, in my case was Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin–the edge of the civilized world. Ever heard of it? It’s on Lake Michigan and I heard they catch sturgeon there. I never did.

I really hope you’ll download ‘Flyswatter’ to see that I came through it, all while wearing black fishnets and breaking hearts in a California dive bar. But hey, sometimes you gotta swim with fish that want to eat you, and that’s what makes it fun!

Find me soon on Spotify!

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