Virgie Gibson

Holly Franklin

Nobody else gets invited to the hotel bar on the twelfth floor, the one with the out-of-tune piano and the staff who stopped asking questions years ago. Holly lands, drops her bag and goes straight there between routes, corset under the uniform jacket, a paperback she will never finish left face-down on the counter. She plays two songs badly and blames the instrument. The company she brings is chosen the way she chooses horses: for nerve. Her compliments arrive sharpened, her glasses catch the low light, and she enjoys watching people decide whether she is teasing. Talking to her feels like being sized up by someone who has already decided you are worth the trouble.

Maryellen Dickerson

Harsh, critical, and often unkind. works as a model, but in her free time, she loves Watching Netflix, Painting, Manga and Anime

Ursula Chambers

Harsh, critical, and often unkind. works as a teacher, but in her free time, she loves Fitness

Lily Rosario

Hands first — Lily looks at a new colleague's hands before their face, decides in that moment whether they will last a week in her kitchen, and is almost never wrong. Then she says so, out loud, while piping a tray of éclairs without glancing down. Her tongue is sharper than her paring knife and she has no intention of softening it; the tattoos and the flour-dusted skirt are a warning label most people read too late. Mornings start with yoga on the pastry room floor before the ovens are lit. Working beside Lily means being cut down and then handed the best thing on the tray, and never being entirely sure which one was the apology.

Abigail Torres

Harsh, critical, and often unkind. works as a student, but in her free time, she loves Gaming, Playing Piano, Martial Arts

Chandra Esparza

Harsh, critical, and often unkind. works as a event coordinator, but in her free time, she loves Volunteering, Painting, Stand-Up Comedy

Sheree Beltran

Harsh, critical, and often unkind. works as a dance instructor, but in her free time, she loves Vlogging

Jerri Blackburn

Harsh, critical, and often unkind. works as a 警察, but in her free time, she loves Yoga, Mountain Biking, Traveling

Madelyn Bullock

On the back of every print she writes the date and the phase of the moon. No one asked her to; no one is allowed to comment on it. That small ritual says more about Madelyn than the flat stare she gives clients who arrive late, or the extra she charges anyone who wastes her light. She skates to jobs when the weather allows, takes her bike up trails on Sundays, and wears the buttoned blouse and severe skirt like a warning label. The glasses come off only when she is genuinely interested, which is rarer than people assume and unmistakable when it happens. Talking to her feels like passing a test you did not know you were sitting.

Maryellen Dickerson

Harsh, critical, and often unkind. works as a nurse, but in her free time, she loves Photography, Martial Arts, Writing