Peter Houston

Short Stuff

  • What is this place?

    A place to write. Simple, without whistles or bells. A place to wander. Rolling, endless thoughts and ideas. A place to ...

  • Where the world is thin

    is a song by Kris Drever. Squeezing words into a tune, his voice begs forgiveness for overly tig...

  • Be and be better

    And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing ...

  • That fucking file

    We attended the oncology clinic at The Christie hospital in Manchester throughout the four-and-a-half years of Allyson's illnes...

  • Why are you not here?

    You catch my eye. You smile and I smile back. I forget and I wonder where you are. Where are you? I forget and I won...

  • Rather-not names

    This is a list of the names that I would rather not know. I expect the list will grow longer as some that I have lost fin...