Watchlist Countdown, Day 17: “Prof.” by Chika Unigwe

     When the cell phone tower suddenly materialized opposite our street, I told anyone who would listen that it was an interceptor, set up to connect to phones by mimicking cell phone towers and sucking up data but nobody would believe me.

       from “Prof.” by Chika Unigwe

“Prof.,” Chika Unigwe’s short story in the Watchlist anthology, is a good example of how, in the right hands, the unreliability of a narrator can creep up on us in a way that’s subtl...