Taking Chances: Volume Two: Roberta's Bet

Volume Two - Roberta's Bet: In the first chapter of Volume One - Ellen's Bet, Roberta relates to Ellen in brief fashion an incident she experienced as a graduate student. She believed her college football squad was bound to lose, as it had every year for a decade, to its gridiron rival. The two financial aid lab assistants who help her with her thesis research and are members of the football squad disagreed. A bet ensued. This is the complete telling of that tale. In this novelette of about 13,000 words Roberta tells Ellen and us about her motivations for making the bet, and of her mental explorations and musings: how will she ever handle the humiliation and degradation of losing, even though she knows that outcome to be beyond remote. And when she wins, as she fully expects, how will she react to her afternoon as a dominant female: the two young men who proposed such a loathsome and vile bet at her mercy? We experience the game with her, and the result.