Guro Challenge #25: Organs
Blaggut supposed Slipp was right, he was an idiot; a clever beast would have asked what the word "quarantine" actually meant before going to find out for himself. Of course he'd been caught and thrown out, amid many curses from the healers (he didn't...
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...
Guro Challenge #9: Skeleton/Bones
Her belly was softer than it should be, and she noticed the bitter iron smell before the surprisingly mild cramp. She put a paw to her thigh, found it wet, and screamed. Buckler came running, and found Clarinna sitting on her bed, clutching something,...
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...
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,...
Guro Challenge #24: Bloodbath
The name and popular rumour to the contrary, the _Goreleech_ was not painted with real blood. Dried blood didn't stay that shade of red, as he knew well, and while a herd or two of cows could probably provide enough blood for a ship that size the...
Guro Challenge #23: Nosebleed
"Oh, I say, m'dear! Are you quite alright?" "Why wouldn't I be?" Clecky put a claw to his nosetip, and said "Your snout, Grath, it's bleeding. Did you bump it, wot?" "Oh, that!" Grath's paw came away from her whiskers with blood on it. "It's...
Guro Challenge #3: Vore/Cannibalism
Filorn walked into the infirmary, saw the mouse's head poking out of her son's mouth, and almost had a heart attack before Nimbalo waved a paw from behind Deyna's lips and grinned at her. "'Ello, miz Deyna's mum!" "Good grief, lads, what are you...
Guro Challenge #15: Insects
"So, liddle Skiv, heard the tale o' the scorpion an' the frog?" Mariel remained silent, walking down the nearly dark stairs one pace ahead of the jovial searat, concentrating on putting one paw in front of the other on the slippery stone. She grunted...
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...
A Curious Fleet: Piknim/Craklyn
The mist was thick, and the moisture made her old bones ache. She had thought that would stop now. Perhaps she had to get past the gate first. She hoped she could find it soon. The path beneath her footpaws was smooth going, broad enough to admit an...
Guro Challenge #16: Bondage
Lask Frildur was a fine specimen of a Monitor, but still very young, and was ashamed to realise it had taken only forty rats to bring him down. Ten were dead and three more soon would be, and more would likely follow. Monitor bites festered, and the...