I met a few times with the man who was showing me how to go about sneaking things into South Africa, but the only aspect I recall of what we talked about was being given a few pointers on how to determine whether you were being followed. And I suppose what was most important about this was to be able to figure out if someone was tailing you, without that person knowing you’d discovered they were there. Reflections – reflections in storefront windows, especially ones that provided some kind of backward view – these were what you were looking for …
Bio:
Joe Davies’ writing has appeared in the Dublin Review, Grain, the New Quarterly, the Manchester Review, Prism International, the Missouri Review, and previously in ºÚÁϳԹÏ×ÊÔ´ Quarterly. He lives in Peterborough, Ontario, where much of the time he’s happy enough to stay put.