Concatenate--by Erin Bregman

to join sequentially; linked together as in a chain (v.)

You've likely heard by now
of that anti-gravity machine theory
based on falling cats
and buttered toast,
and I tell you straight I saw my cousin try it once
with his cat who had just given birth
to a litter of ten.
And when he dropped her
with buttered toast tied to her back
she never hit the ground but did manage to
grab ahold of her eldest born,
mouth to nape of the neck like cats do,
and that eldest, he managed to grab ahold of that
ball of string he'd been batting around and
his youngest sister managed to
keep her hold on that string and
I sat there watching as they rose,
and disappeared into the night sky.

Send Me Your GRE Stories!!!

Dear Everyone,

This blog has been a bit unactive recently. But I was just in the bathroom at my school and while I was washing my hands I had a thought:

We should keep this alive! This blog is for the greater good! We all need to suffer the pains of the GRE verbal section! Together!

Therefore: I'm officially opening this site for submissions.

So: if you're either (a) a writer who wants to help or (b) studying for the GRE or (c) a writer studying for the GRE, then send me stories, poems, or essays based on the meanings of new GRE words. Send submissions to david.backer@gmail.com.

Hurray!!! Looking forward to the project!


(BTW: Two of my GRE stories have been accepted by small online magazines ("Variegated" can be found on johnnyamerica.net and "Refractory" on theaggregatedpress.com).