Progress

by Christopher Cocca

Rachel has these sweat pants with an old boyfriend's college on the thigh and she wears them in the morning sometimes before she leaves. I don't remember what she wears the nights before and sometimes I feel guilty. She says she sees there's more to me and I say I'm not so sure. I say we can't keep doing this and she repeats there's more to me and I ask her where she's looking. Rachel smiles and I see the red straps on her halter and think that might be something. She picks the letters on her thigh and nods.

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Christopher Cocca is the author of Before Another Breakdown. ("Progress" is excerpted from a larger work.)