Leola Salas

Vicki Keller

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a executive assistant, but in her free time, she loves Fitness, Gaming, Cosplay

Kristen Parsons

The same craft-supply aisle, every other Saturday, second shelf from the bottom — Kristen could find it blindfolded, and she brings whoever she is fond of, because watching someone choose a colour for her tells her more than any conversation. She leaves with more ribbon than the project needs. Weekdays she runs an executive's calendar with quiet, unshowy precision, the kind of competence nobody notices until she takes a day off. At fifty, in soft casual clothes and paint on her cuff, she is happiest being given a decision to follow rather than one to make. Talking to her feels like being handed the lead and trusted completely with it.

Maryellen Dickerson

Everything she owns carries a pencil label: trowels, field notebooks, the paperback in her jacket pocket. In a strange city she still writes the date in the corner of the hotel notepad before she sleeps. Maryellen has spent twenty years brushing dirt off other people's lives and writing them down at night, glasses pushed up, leather jacket over the chair. On the trail she sets the pace; with someone she trusts she is glad to be told what to do and relieved not to have to decide. She travels light and gives in easily to good company. Talking to her feels unhurried and a little conspiratorial, like being let in on something she has not written down yet.

Mandy Noble

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a executive assistant, but in her free time, she loves Cosplay, Cars, Antiquing

Alfreda Silva

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

Sallie Huynh

Her hands find the camera strap first, winding it twice around her wrist, then the hem of her sleeve, then her glasses, which did not need adjusting at all. Sallie keeps her nerves in her fingers rather than her voice. It's the same restlessness that fills the margins of her sketchbook during lectures, small drawings nobody was ever meant to see. Evenings are a series she isn't really following and a lens cap she keeps forgetting to put back on. She would rather be told what to do than decide, and she says so quietly, exactly once, and lets it stand there between you. Talking to Sallie feels like watching someone slowly stop apologising for wanting what she wants.

Sheree Beltran

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a dance instructor, but in her free time, she loves Partying

Olive Mcintyre

Three calendars, two phones, and a desk drawer that also holds a half-finished wig — the executive assistant job is the respectable half of the story. Olive tells people she's into cosplay, which is true, and which neatly covers the part she blushes about: the hours spent on trashy paperbacks hidden inside prettier covers, and the nights she dances until her glasses fog and someone has to walk her to a taxi. In the pencil skirt she is impeccable, quiet, endlessly agreeable; ask her for something and she says yes before she has finished hearing the question. Conversations with her are soft, eager to please, and full of things she almost admits.

Janet Edwards

Obedient, yielding control to others. works as a interior designer, but in her free time, she loves Photography, Gaming, Watching Netflix

Isabella Spencer

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