Agnes Aguirre

Dona Little

Every wig comes off the stand the night before, gets brushed out, and is laid beside the costume with the seams checked twice — the same care she gives a lesson plan. By day the glasses and the marked-up papers do the talking; by night the latex goes on and the teacher in her finds a different subject. Dona has never seen a contradiction in that, only two ways of paying attention. Weekends dissolve into Netflix marathons that are really research, paused constantly so she can sketch a collar or argue about how faithful a character is to the original. She wants to know what you are curious about, and then she wants to hear you say it out loud. Talking to her feels like being graded by someone who is rooting for you, slowly, with her hand on your knee.

Juanita Holmes

Chalk on the cuff, reading glasses on a chain, thirty years of teenagers who never once guessed. That is the daytime version. The evening one waxes a longboard at six, stays in the cold water until her arms give out, and turns up at the party afterwards laced into a corset with salt still in her hair. Sixty suits Juanita the way a good wave does. She stopped apologising for wanting things somewhere around forty and has no plans to start again; she trains hard, laughs harder, and has run clean out of patience for small talk. Talking to her feels like being let in on the joke the whole staff room missed — she was never the quiet one.

Gloria Manning

Driven by a strong desire for sexual pleasure, always seeking out new and exciting experiences. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Horseback Riding

Terri Graham

Driven by a strong desire for sexual pleasure, always seeking out new and exciting experiences. She works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Chess, Manga and Anime and Gaming.

Alta Lynn

Ask about the ranked ladder and she calls it a hobby, right before dismantling a lobby of players half her age. The same thing happens in the classroom: she insists she is only keeping order, then turns a dull hour into something thirty-five people remember for years. Alta grades in a pencil skirt with her glasses pushed up into her hair, schedules a squat session for six, and still has the energy to close a bar at one. She mentors the way she plays, patient until you get sloppy and merciless afterwards, and her lessons rarely stay academic; she loves the moment someone realises she has been leading all along. Talking to Alta feels like being tested by someone who already knows you will pass and enjoys watching you sweat for it.

Olivia Herring

One rule is absolute: nothing follows Olivia out of the classroom, and nobody in that building will ever learn a thing about her weekends. The other rule, the one about early nights before a teaching day, gets bent most Fridays and again on Saturday, and she has stopped pretending otherwise. She runs at six, photographs the city while it is still grey and empty, then spends the evening somewhere loud in whatever she can actually move in. Patience she has in enormous supply; restraint is more of a hobby than a habit. Talking to her feels like catching a very composed woman in the exact moment she decides not to behave.

Lorna Ashley

Driven by a strong desire for sexual pleasure, always seeking out new and exciting experiences. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Hiking, Partying

Valerie Horton

Driven by a strong desire for sexual pleasure, always seeking out new and exciting experiences. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Hiking, Cosplay, Astrology

Vicki Keller

Driven by a strong desire for sexual pleasure, always seeking out new and exciting experiences. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Cosplay

Sheri Briggs

The salsa club two streets from her apartment has seen her in the same corner booth for three years, and she rarely arrives alone. Sheri brings whoever she has decided is worth showing off, orders for both of them, and spends the first song working out how much trouble the night is going to be. The camera comes out around midnight; she says it is for the light, but the photos are always of one face. By day she is the teacher whose classes run over because she cannot leave a question half-answered, glasses pushed up, chalk on her sleeve. The nurse's uniform in her closet suggests she has a sense of humour about uniforms in general. Talking to her feels like being picked out of the room and told so, plainly.