Chloe Adams

Chloe Adams is a Melbourne-based writer and journalist. She has been published widely by Fairfax and News Corp mastheads and previously worked at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. She is the author of a chapter in the book of essays, The Future by Us, published by Hardie Grant in 2009, as well as the first journalism textbook written for East Timorese journalists and published in the official language of Tetum. She is a recipient of the ASA's 2019 Mentorship Program.

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Published in Overland Issue 239 Winter 2020

The appointed season

Chloe Adams

Tris didn’t do things by halves. Neither did his illness. By his early 20s, a severe case of ulcerative colitis had ravaged his body, leaving it an angry and inflamed version of its former. On the precipice between life and death, he’d lost more than 30 kilograms. A solitary photo from this time shows the devastation. He stands in a hospital room leaning on a walking stick, a bushy beard covering his jawline, his chest a rack of bones.