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A Halloween of Adolescence

10/31/2025

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Hello & Wishing you as happy a Halloween as you can muster during these profoundly and increasingly nightmarish times.

​Still, for your entertainment I wanted to share this creative essay I wrote a few years ago for Jill Howe’s Story Sessions about being 12.
The Heebie Jeebies
I’ll tell you a balloon is a beautiful thing. Even the spelling: One “b” and then an “a,” followed by two “l’s and two “o’s so a double consonant and a double vowel and finally an n to seal the deal....

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    Barrie Cole is a Chicago-based playwright, poet, essayist, and instructor. During her 30-year career, Barrie has amassed a catalog of more than a dozen plays, hybrid works, poems, and monologues, many of which have been produced or performed throughout the Chicago area and elsewhere. 

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