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 Queen’s Quarterly. He lives in Peterborough, Ontario, where much of the time he’s happy enough to stay put.