Wet By Rain

Mistress Vania Changes Jobs: Ep. 20 The Rewilding of Roger Sky. Despite being dark Riko placed the dense black cloth bag over Roger's head. It hung loose at his neck to allow him to breathe. Roger was led up the stairs of the cellar and out of the house. There he was loaded into the rear seat of the Volkswagen estate. Shaped like a station wagon it had had lots of room, but Roger did not need it....

Mistress Vania made the final touches to Riko's new haircut. She was not a hairdresser, but Riko needed the haircut of a young man. What she had ended up with was a cross between a choppy bob and a short back and sides. The effect was striking. More importantly it was in no way feminine. Riko wiped down her whole body with a damp towel. The irritation of cut hair was something she particularly hat...

Riko had planted a listening device in the offices of The Hapten-Shufti Standard. However, this was not sufficient to record the conversation which occurred between Detective Rake and Amanda. The conversation had occurred in the reception area. It did detect a phone call between Amanda and Horace. This conversation was cryptic and not very helpful to Mistress Vania as she listened to it on her sma...

Mistress Vania Changes Jobs. Ep.17 Adventures in Fletcherism. Roger was starting to smell. Riko took a bucket and sponge. She washed him with the care and attention usually reserved for a compact hatchback at a carwash. Roger lay on the ground to limit the chance of him slipping on the soapy floor. Riko wore her overalls and knee high Wellington boots. She moved Roger around with gentle kicks wher...

Mistress Vania Changes Jobs. Ep.16 Rake Comes to Visit Riko prepared a mixture of lean chicken meat, finely chopped vegetables and rice. It was taken down to Roger in a plastic dish. The portion was small. Roger ate it quickly and found it insufficient. Raising the prospect of food in his mind, it was almost worse than eating nothing at all. His ravenous stomach's reaction to the tiny meal was ext...

Audio book of Mistress Vania Changes Jobs. Ep.15 Mineral Wrap for Roger. Paperback and Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Mistress-Vania-Changes-Scott-Baxter-ebook/dp/B00LPLIC6C Apple iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/wet-by-rain/id1517187872 Twitter: https://twitter.com/WetByRain1 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FUG4EErDp4pUInZ1ANYsp?si=N4OvPMSkSoOGXmX7IHcIuw YouTube: https://www....

Audio book of Mistress Vania Changes Jobs. Ep.14 Riko Gets a Parcel. Paperback and Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Mistress-Vania-Changes-Scott-Baxter-ebook/dp/B00LPLIC6C Apple iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/wet-by-rain/id1517187872 Twitter: https://twitter.com/WetByRain1 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5FUG4EErDp4pUInZ1ANYsp?si=N4OvPMSkSoOGXmX7IHcIuw YouTube: https://www.yout...

Audio book of Mistress Vania Changes Jobs. Ep.13 Amanda Meets a Source It was early in the morning and Grant Stoat was smoking his fourth cigarette of the day. He pined for Riko. He did not even know her name. So instead, when thinking about her, he called her my love . Stoat was not unusual. Almost all men are at some point in their lives completely irrational over a woman. More commonly, they ar...

Audio book of Mistress Vania Changes Jobs. Ep.12: Hank Raises the Alarm. Hank knew what it was like to be fat like Roger. Hank worked out and had ripped killer abs and his arms were massive. Yet it had not always been that way. Once Hank had been dumped by Daphne. It had hit him hard. He blamed her, then himself, then women generally and finally he blamed the world. The world had a lot to answer f...

Audio book of Mistress Vania Changes Jobs. Ep.11 The Punishment Begins Amanda drew a fish on her shorthand pad. It was heavily inspired by the cubism school of art and was done entirely in blue ballpoint. The fact that Rake could achieve the exulted position of police detective in Hapten-Shufti was a poor reflection on the town. The police were set apart from the general public. The nature of the...

Audio book of Mistress Vania Changes Jobs. Ep.10 A New Life Awaits You In the Cellar. With the man in the cap gone, Mistress Vania and Riko turned their attention back to Roger. "What was that man saying?" asked Riko. "It would seem," said Mistress Vania. "That our car is very similar to the one owned by a famous jockey. Someone who appears in the local press. How that qualifies as news, I'm not s...

Audio book of Mistress Vania Changes Jobs. Ep.9: The Caravaggio Café and Grill. Riko was working on refitting the cellar. Her shoulder length straight black hair was wet with sweat. Running the length of the ceiling were a systems of beams from which she could operate a number of hooks and winches. The beams were massive and larger than the beams that supported the floor above. Riko's knowledge as...

Audio book of Mistress Vania Changes Jobs. Ep.8 Riko Does Internet Dating. Mistress Vania blamed the internet for so many things. It had overstimulated and softened the minds of her clients. Yet ignoring the internet was not the answer either. Virtually all of the world's population were interacting with it one way or another. She had come to the conclusion that most people use the internet to squ...

Audio book of Mistress Vania Changes Jobs. Ep.7 Amanda Meets Detective Rake. "If you drive a Lexus, you're somebody," said Brad Hooper, to an assembled group of well dressed, well fed people. "Everybody notices a Lexus." Amanda considered the story a puff piece and a sellout. She walked around the car dealership showroom snapping photographs of people eating canapés and sipping budget sparkling wi...

Audio book of Mistress Vania Changes Jobs. Ep.6 Mistress Vania Orders a Pizza. Riko drove the large rented truck down the motor way. With the vehicle loaded with everything she required it was heavy on the road. She had an articulated truck license, but it was not needed on this occasion. Everything had fitted into a smaller style truck – one that could be driven with a car license. " Onaka ga suk...

Episode Five: Amanda goes to a dog show. Paperback and Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Mistress-Vania-Changes-Scott-Baxter-ebook/dp/B00LPLIC6C Apple iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/wet-by-rain/id1517187872 Twitter: https://twitter.com/WetByRain1 Those wanting to support the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=36140272 Music by Kevin MacLeod, Licensed under Creative Commons: By Att...

Ep. 4: Roger Goes on a Date. "Computer games are the new cinema," said Roger, adjusting the microphone on his computer headset. "Seriously, I'm not the only person to have said it, but the cut scenes in Unreasonable Travesty 6, could have been a movie. I was there. I saw the comments in the forums. When it went on-line, people thought it was the trailer to a movie, not a game." There were two dist...

Ep. 3: Amanda Starts Her New Job. Horace had suggested that Amanda could fit her entire life into the trunk of her car. He had meant it as a throwaway line, but Amanda had to admit the truth of it. Everything she either needed or valued was now in her car. There was a slight overflow of items into the back seat, but it was all in there. Paperback and Kindle: https://www.amazon.com/Mistress-Vania-C...

Audio book of Mistress Vania Changes Jobs. Episode Two: Mistress Vania Works Out "You can't just blame everything on the internet," said Amanda, sitting on the corner of her boss' desk. Her boss was the newspaper editor Horace Pratt. The Hanoverian cast of his face made him look like a ghostly visage from the nineteenth century. His waistcoat and red suspenders placed him firmly in his glory days...

Episode One: Raymond Speaks His Mind. "I blame the internet," said Mistress Vania. "Then again you can say that about most things wrong with the world today." She was sitting in her salon with Raymond, her longtime acquaintance and client. Raymond was a man in his seventies with thick grey hair and a tailored suit. For this age he had young teeth and young eyes. Yet the baggy folds of skin on his...