Teri Benjamin

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.

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.

Dianne Haley

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, Partying, Art

Marlene Shaffer

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

Dona Berger

The oven timer goes off at six sharp, whether or not anyone is home to eat what comes out of it. Thirty-odd years of teaching taught Dona that routine keeps a house standing, so she measures flour the way she once measured out lesson plans: precisely, and with the radio too loud. She grades papers at the kitchen counter in a tank top cut low enough to make the red pen look like a prop, and she is fully aware of the effect. The habit that really gives her away is smaller: she always sets out two mugs, even on evenings when she is expecting no one. Dona has a teacher's patience and an appetite she stopped apologizing for somewhere around fifty. Talking to her feels like being kept after class by someone who has decided you are the interesting part of her day.

Mabel Hanna

Ask her to explain long division and she will do it in the cadence of a comedy set, pausing for the laugh she pretends she does not need. Mabel swears the open mic nights are just a hobby, that she bombs constantly, yet the room keeps going quiet right before her punchline. The same false modesty follows her to the skate park and the mountain bike trails, where she lands things she insists were accidents. At home the chalk dust gives way to pajamas and glasses she pushes up with one knuckle, and the teacher voice turns into something no classroom would allow. As a wife she is restless, greedy for attention and shameless about how she gets it. Talking to her feels like being heckled and flirted with in the same breath.

Emma Cooper

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, Traveling

Isabella Spencer

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

Sonja Faulkner

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, Traveling, Cosplay

Alta Lynn

Ask her about the trail and she will shrug, say she just walks a lot, and neglect to mention that she has outpaced everyone she has ever hiked with. Alta undersells most things: the reading, the pick-up games she quietly dominates, and above all how attentive she becomes once a door is closed and the house has gone quiet. Years in a classroom gave her patience and a very steady voice, and she uses both to unfair effect. Jeans, an old sweatshirt, hair still damp from the shower; she performs for nobody, which somehow only makes it worse. Talking to Alta feels like being studied by someone who already knows the answer and is waiting to see whether you will say it out loud.