It’s bad enough when a song gets stuck in your head – the same Bette Midler or ‘N Sync line, over and over. But for an unpopular high school freshman attending “Cricket Academy,” the problem is a little more complicated than that. A new piece of fiction by Touré from his collection “The Portable Promised Land,” read by Mara DeMey for The Next Big Thing.
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