It's All in the Game
by Valerie Maskell

Nat's family are preparing for the solemn ritual of watching The Game on T.V. A Government sponsored super football, it's much more than a spectator sport.

A win, for instance, can increase production, lessen vandalism, reduce suicides.

They're horrified when their son (a state employee who's been allowed into the stadium) says the whole thing is a gigantic con-- there's no game, it's all a computerized fraud designed to keep the people happy and quiet.

Nat's shattered, but his wife says it's faith that matters: if you believe in The Game, it exists.