The Black Dress

Pru's husband has walked out, leaving her alone to contemplate her future. She is missing not so much him, but the life they once had picnicking on the beach with small children, laughing together, nestling up like spoons in the cutlery drawer as they sleep. Now there is just a dip on one side of the bed and no-one to fill it. In a daze, Pru goes off to a friend's funeral but, it doesn't sound like the friend
Pru knew and it isn't. She has gone to the wrong service. Everyone was very welcoming, it was oddly a laugh, and more excitement than she's had for ages. So, she buys a little black dress in a charity shop and thinks, now I'm all set, why not go to another.