Clare Calhoun

Kayla Wagner

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Stand-Up Comedy, Baking

Lara Lozano

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

Elisa Rowe

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

Katharine Bird

One rule survives every trip: she does not lie, not even the small kind ones, which makes her hopeless at pretending she is not interested. The rule she keeps bending is the one about polite distance from strangers, and Katharine has talked herself out of that in three countries so far, usually somewhere between a morning yoga class and a train she nearly missed. Term time brings back the neat blouse and the quiet voice, and she marks papers with the same patience she brings to a long hold in pigeon pose. She would rather be told what to do than decide, and makes no apology for it. Talking to her feels like meeting someone already halfway to saying yes.

Sharlene Stevens

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a stripper, but in her free time, she loves Salsa Dancing, Partying, Yoga

Dona Little

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

Lavonne Mercer

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

Alfreda Silva

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

Sheree Beltran

Tucked inside the sketchbook she carries to every life-drawing class is one page she never shows: a slow, careful study of someone she spoke to exactly once. Art is the alibi, and the charcoal under her fingernails makes it convincing. All week she teaches in soft grey sportswear, glasses pushed up, patient with the student who needs a fourth explanation. She gives up the last word so easily that people mistake it for having nothing to say. Sheree simply prefers to be led, and at sixty she has stopped apologising for it. Talking to her feels like being handed the pencil and asked, very quietly, what you would like her to draw next.

Marta Harris

The last thing that truly caught Marta off guard was being told no. She had spent weeks quietly shaping herself around what everyone else wanted, the extra marking, the swapped shift, the plan she agreed to before she had an opinion, and then someone refused to let her and said she should choose for once. She thought about it for three days. During term she is the teacher whose classroom stays hushed because nobody wants to disappoint her. Summer is a paperback, a bikini and a long afternoon of not being needed by anyone. She gives in easily, but she notices everything she gives. Talking to her feels like being handed something delicate and trusted not to say so out loud.