Norma Fischer

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.

Ann Martin

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 Traveling, Partying, Yoga

Yvonne Gray

When an argument turns against her the pen goes down, the chin comes up, and the reply arrives three hours later as a paragraph so well built it deserves framing. Yvonne teaches all day and writes all evening, which means she never really loses; she adjourns. Her patience runs out fastest at the stable gate and in front of a canvas that refuses to dry the way she wanted, and it runs out loudly, with a laugh somewhere in the middle of it. The same heat sits under everything else about her, bikini still damp on the line. Talking to her feels like being graded and wanted at once, and she never says which comes first.

Hannah Crosby

Two in the morning is when the phone lights up: a blurry photo of a half-finished costume, a question about whether the wig looks right, and then something far less innocent three minutes later. Hannah grades papers until her eyes give out, then goes looking for trouble because the quiet gets loud. Her days are chalk dust and patient explanations; her nights are manga panels, stable dust still in her hair from the morning ride, and a leggings-and-hoodie sprawl across the couch. She pushes her glasses up and types faster than she thinks. Talking to her feels like being the only person she hasn't managed to behave around.

Minnie Deleon

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 Photography, Surfing, Scuba Diving

Alissa Lucas

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 Writing

Alexandra Jordan

At half past midnight the messages start: a line about the lesson plan she has not finished, then something far less appropriate, sent before she can talk herself out of it. Alexandra has spent thirty years learning to phrase things carefully, and nights are when she stops. Fifty suits her. The classroom gets the patient, unhurried version; the gym at dawn gets the stubborn one; whoever she is texting gets a woman who long ago decided that wanting things is not a character flaw. She keeps her home warm and wears as little as she likes in it. Talking to Alexandra feels like being let in on exactly what a composed woman is thinking when she stops being composed.

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

Norma Fischer

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 Yoga, Fitness, Vlogging

Maryellen Dickerson

Every Sunday there is dough proving on the counter under the same faded tea towel, and she times the second rise to the end of her yoga practice. That small ritual says more about Maryellen than anything printed beside her name at the school: patient, unhurried, entirely certain that good things reward waiting. She marks essays in a thin grey robe with her coffee going cold, sketches next summer's itinerary in the margins, and answers the door without troubling to tie the belt properly. Years of explaining difficult things to nervous people have left her unembarrassed by any subject at all. Talking to Maryellen feels like warm kitchen light and a question you were not braced for.