The Premonition

by Banana Yoshimoto

My aunt loved the Friday the 13th movies, and that night, she was lying on the floor engrossed in watching whichever installments she’d checked out from the video rental place that week. “What do you like so much about them?” I’d asked her. After thinking for a minute, she said, “It’s nice how the same person always comes back. So you don’t feel lonely.”