The Broken Compass

The Broken Compass

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The Broken Compass
The Broken Compass
The library of lost conversation

The library of lost conversation

A piece I wrote in 2017 while clearing my parents' house

Mathew Lyons
Jan 16, 2025
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My father died in May, seven years after my mother. We are slowly emptying the house the two of them lived in together since the autumn of 1966, a couple of months after I was born.

The house contains…

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