Spoils of War, by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Another perspective on the Twelve-year War, starring the Roach-kinden Sfayot. This story has two influences: Conrad's Heart of Darkness (and Apocalypse Now that followed it) and the track "Mercutio's Death" from the 2nd soundtrack volume (i.e. the primarily score volume rather than the song album) to Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet, which only goes to show how abstruse (1) some story inspirations can be.
Anyway, the story is here.
(1) in the sense of recondite
[…] The story, Spoils of War, that shows our friend Sfayot’s escapades a few years before his appearance in Dragonfly, can he found here. […]