Lilian Archer

Leanna Brady

The chess pieces get straightened before the game starts, after every capture, and once more when she is losing — a small ritual that says more about Leanna than any label could. Her weeks go on teaching teenagers a patience she is not certain she has, and her evenings on ranked matches and one carefully rationed episode of whatever series she is halfway through. At thirty-nine she still hides behind her fringe when complimented, then leans in anyway. Summer means a bikini, freckles everywhere, piercings catching the light, and a very unconvincing act of not noticing you look. Talking to Leanna feels like winning a game she quietly let you win.

Jennifer Benson

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Cosplay, Manga and Anime, Gaming

Valerie Horton

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Partying, Anime, Reading

Angela Acosta

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a nutritionist, but in her free time, she loves Playing Piano

Norma Fischer

Call her bluff and she does not scramble; she goes quiet, goes pink and admits it in a voice barely above the television. Norma bluffs badly on purpose, because getting caught is the part she likes, and she has never once pretended otherwise. Shoots end and she is straight back into an oversized shirt, one hand in a bag of something, three episodes deep into a series she will finish before morning. She reads manga on trains, plans trips she mostly takes for the food, and would far rather be told where to sit than choose the restaurant. Freckles, piercings and all, she gives herself over completely to whoever she is with. Talking to Norma feels like being trusted faster than you deserve.

Frances Hampton

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Hiking

Alfreda Silva

Nothing surprised her recently like the last rep of a set she was certain she would fail. The bar went up anyway, and the person most shocked in the room was the one holding it. Years of being the quiet one who says yes, and her body had been quietly disagreeing the whole time. Weekdays she runs an executive's calendar in a band shirt and a choker, leather wristbands shoved up her forearms, tattoos half tucked out of sight; weekends belong to a black metal band that rehearses in a basement and plays to forty people who scream every word. Alfreda likes being told what to do by someone she trusts, and she is extremely particular about who that is. Talking to her feels quiet at first, then unexpectedly steady, like being handed something she does not offer many people.

Elise Cantu

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a soldier, but in her free time, she loves Gaming, Manga and Anime, Painting

Candice Mcintyre

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a ballerina , but in her free time, she loves Cosplay

Leanne Winters

The same ridge path, most Saturdays, an hour before anyone sensible is awake — that is where Leanne walks off the week, notebook zipped into her jacket for the lines that only arrive uphill. She brings one person at a time, and only someone she trusts; the colleague who catches her rereading her own margin notes at the staffroom table usually gets the invitation first. Weekday mornings are the gym, then the pencil dress and the glasses and a classroom that never suspects how easily she says yes to the right voice. Talking to her feels like being trusted with something she hands over quietly and hopes you will be careful with.