NOVEL 06 YT

Beverly is 64, almost two years a widow, and her daughter-in-law Chandra finally talked her into moving into the family home in Clarksville. The only thing left was to change her address at the bank. Then the teller stopped typing, turned his monitor around and said very quietly, "Ma'am, I need you to look at something." Her address had already been moved to her son's house nine months earlier, long before anyone had asked her a single question. Chandra was on her checking account with a signature Beverly never wrote. And a small green memo pad her late husband hid in the closet had one last line for her: read everything twice before you sign it. So Beverly stopped signing, and started reading out loud.