Guro Challenge #33: Beaten Up/Bruising

When he was a pup, Martin one day complained of a terrible headache. His friend Timbal nodded sympathetically, and then kicked him in the shins. Martin used several words his grandmother would have clipped his ears for saying, and asked Timbal why he...

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Redwall Commission #5 - Tiria/Leatho

"Ee aye eeeeeeee! Free, free, freeeeee!" Otters tumbled into the river, whooping and hollering and spinning splashy circles, and Tiria reflected on freedom. In the way a fish knows only water, she had known only freedom, restricted as she had...

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A Curious Fleet: Shard/Freeta

Promotion was not living up to Shard's expectations. Angrily, he wiped droplets of water from his headfur and let his tongue hang out, hoping to ease the discomfort of the sticky-hot room, and hacked with more force than necessary at the carrots...

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Guro Challenge #21: Breathplay

"N-no, please... aaccck..." "Head up!" Dotti grabbed the stoat's whiskers and yanked up, pointing his snout at the sky. The captives had been lined up by height, kneeling on the sand, each at the footpaws of a hare holding a length of rope. Brocktree...

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Guro Challenge #30: Monstrous

His bones are creaking out of shape, body growing and legs growing faster until his head pushes branches out of the way, scratching up his face. He clutches at his tail for comfort and it dissolves between his claws, his fur is showering the ground,...

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Guro Challenge #11: Conjoined Bodies

When any of their pups had a disagreement not vicious enough to result in death but loud and long-lasting enough to aggravate those around them, the ratwives would tie their tails together and leave them that way until they wore themselves out...

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Guro Challenge #4: Piercings/Body Modification

"Dad, I really don't think you should be doin' this yourself." "Oh, pshaw, young feller, am I to trust the job to your tremblin' paws?" "They ain't tremblin'!" Cheek tucked his paws behind his back to hide his lie. "Just think this is still gonna...

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A Curious Fleet: Nagru/Silvamord

Three days a year Nagru and Silvamord make a truce. The rats know it's coming when her scent begins to change and she walks with her tail stiff; Nagru is less vicious to her, yet more tense. They avoid eye contact all evening as they eat their fill,...

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Pale Shade of Blue

Ice-cold blue Snowfall makes the den a tomb Waited to parley with you Trusted all your words untrue Lives all fading War cries sound louder than the ocean's crash You supply the weapons and he'll provide the wrath Rebellion breaks a father's...

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Guro Challenge #14: Self-Harm

Fermald hadn't wanted to agree with him, but she had no choice; Graylunk knew he was insane, but he was not stupid, and he knew there was nothing more the infirmary could do. It was time. In the night he slipped away, taking no food or blanket - why...

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Guro Challenge #1: Amputation

He wasn't going to make it. Agarnu sprawled face-down on the forest floor, weeping into the mulch. He hadn't noticed his injured leg had got caught between two roots until he'd fallen. Bad sign. Numbness might have been a blessed relief from the pain,...

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Guro Challenge #27: Extra Limbs

As soon as he learns to count, he dreams of his claw. In the day it's the last thing anybeast cares about, but at night it shows up like a flag. He dreams of being a mouse, a normal one, not twice the other younglings' height with razor fangs and...

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