Big and Bright

A short story about little girls who loved their Daddy.

“Hopeless is a state of mind,” the tall woman mused as she heaved her new sofa into its place on her living room floor. Her youngest daughter had a rowdy game playing with her miniature soccer ball and her oldest was braiding a doll’s hair on the bottom step. The staircase in their new home was wide enough for the girl and the doll; Vivia felt pride swelling in her chest just drinking in the sights of the place.

“What does that mean?” Karla’s doll asked. Karla herself hadn’t spoken in over a year, but her therapist and her…