Title Game Exercise
Saccharine The first thing that Rebecca did when she got to work every day was make herself a cup of coffee. Like most people who worked a regular, boring office job, she needed caffeine to keep herself awake for the entire day. Between the sleep deprivation from having to wake up before the sun came up, and her monotonous job, she was never fully awake. The rumbling of the coffee pot had almost put her to sleep, when it suddenly came to a stop, telling her that the coffee was ready. She took the cup and added an excessive amount of sweetener into it. That’s the way she liked to drink it. “You might want to stop putting so much sweetener into that coffee of yours,” said a scratchy voice. An old woman walked out from behind Rebecca’s view. Rebecca was startled at the sight of her. Her face was sagging and wrinkly. Her clothes—a long, gray-tinted dress that fell past her knees, along with a black cloth that covered most of her gray, disheveled hair—were full of stains. It looked as if sh...