The Rat Empire

Hi. This is a short story that not everyone will want to read. If you are my sister (yes, you live in the same house as me), don't read it. Don't ask why.

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The Rat Empire

There was once a little man who discovered that his little toe was bitten off by a frog. The frog couldn’t exactly swallow the toe so he lugged it around and eventually spat the toe unto the sidewalk. Then came a rat, who carried it back to her hole in the wall and nibbled away at the toe. The toe lasted the rat and her family an entire week.

As for the little man, he hunted the frog, and caught it when the frog tried biting off his other little toe. So the little man held the frog and bit off his head. He spat the frog’s head unto the sidewalk, where the rat conveniently picked it up again and fed her family for another seven days.

Then the rat figured that instead of waiting for another meal to drop by, she decided to organize all the rats in her district to hunt the little man, and eat him up. For the entire district, the little man would most likely last them about three to four weeks.

One clever rat, a friend of the rat who ate the toe and the frog’s head, suggested that they capture the little man instead of killing him. So, one night, while the little man was sleeping on his bed, thousands of little rats crawled into his room and carried him away into a manhole under the largest drain in all of Kuala Lumpur.

The little man woke up to discover that his fingers and his toes were all eaten up. His tongue was bitten off, and all the tendons were severed. He could not move. And all he could see was little rats biting off different bits of him everyday. Every evening, the rats would shove raw frog meat into the little man’s mouth and force it into his throat, then the rats would pee into his mouth, just to keep him alive.

The little man lasted three months, and fed all the rats in the district. When the little man died, all the rats mourned, for they have come to appreciate the life of the little man who has unwillingly kept all the rats alive. They kept silent. They held their squeaks to themselves. They fasted for two whole days in memory of the little man.

Then they plotted the capture of all living people in the city.

Men, women, and children were to be made into food farms for the rats.

And so, that was the rise of the rats.

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