The Dragon and His Wife

The Dragon and His Wife

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"I shall bite away your life when you are most beautiful and most happy." Thus promised the dragon and the human's daughter. In the dragon's eyes, the daughter's days seemed to be filled with happiness. His wife always smiled beautifully. And yet, now she no longer moves. The poignant and helpless love and fate of a dragon born with the earth and a human with a finite lifespan. (This short story was inspired by a certain tweet the other day and developed into an original short fiction. It has no connection whatsoever to the original tweet's world view, and I have received permission from the tweet's author to publish it.) (Also posted on Kakuyomu and Everista)

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Reading Time
32 min
Words 1,426
Sentences 158
Characters 2,597
Unique Words 553
1-Occurrence Words
386
Unique Kanji 381
1-Occurrence Kanji
219
Avg Word Difficulty 2.22
Avg Sentence Length 9.0

Word List (553 words)

WordFrequencyDifficulty
12.13
仰る13.51
それは11.95
浅い13.66
二十歳14.14
もの派12.90
冷んやり14.32
輝く13.03
やも知れぬ14.57
哭く12.05
理解12.49
と共に12.60
時折13.49
横たわる13.82
当たる13.06
だろう11.78
泣き叫ぶ14.27
愛し合う14.54
見る12.00
呻く13.89
の様に12.34
肉塊14.28
生まれる13.03
伴侶13.94
愛し13.36
静かに13.02
ど阿呆15.80
外囲13.11
悲しむ13.90
多い12.52
12.13
筈がない13.40
ものを12.71
増々13.64
12.15
自身12.69
ならば12.57
明後日13.81
鹿13.80
ものですか14.53
下に13.15
生きていく13.95
取り合い14.47
蹴飛ばす14.40
空腹14.02
兄弟13.59
深く13.06
もので12.67
嗜める14.49
しみじみ13.97
とりあえず12.73
確信13.21
土塊14.65
混じる13.46
文句13.23
13.57
好き12.59
いつ13.24
年老い15.08
三日13.50
腐り14.40
12.47
明日12.80
匂い13.08
きっぱり14.05
余り12.47
分かる12.00
何度も12.93
寄せる13.71
13.39
脅し13.90
野菜13.36
故郷13.41
12.90
13.59
遠い13.38
憎む14.00
なぁ12.56
真横14.14
ようだ12.24
14.28
不調14.42
13.61
取る12.69
続く12.90
まま12.40
14.23
あけび16.81
じっと13.19
触れる13.08
あの12.00
十二13.73
有り難うございました13.41
13.20
詫び14.31
それに12.23
許す12.89
恐れる13.76
言いきる14.88
ゆっくり12.72
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