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
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もの派12.90
疑う13.25
薄い13.15
兄弟13.59
四十13.76
一葉14.33
わね12.77
識る15.81
飲む12.84
戴き13.44
あの12.00
体12.15
崩す13.45
見初める14.65
時間12.25
幻13.61
寄せる13.71
老13.39
浮かべる12.57
黙る12.92
足12.57
声12.02
少しずつ13.39
呼びかけ13.81
木の芽15.70
揺らす13.50
年月14.04
伴侶13.94
朽ち果てる14.70
のでは12.62
あんなに13.52
言い返し14.58
女12.48
その場12.86
上下13.77
である11.76
求愛14.90
愛し13.36
柔らかい13.35
として11.89
好き12.59
有り難うございました13.41
二人きり13.85
七日12.50
とは11.95
三十13.45
最高潮14.64
間違う13.21
みたいな12.70
諫める14.94
二十年14.25
のに12.21
男12.13
不知14.59
陽だまり15.05
であろう13.07
故郷13.41
いい12.05
浮かぶ12.94
愛し合う14.54
浅い13.66
結構12.82
よもや14.39
寝そべる14.31
さっさと13.12
取り合い14.47
二日13.62
輪13.59
聞く11.95
祝詞13.05
話す12.73
熱13.20
前12.31
ですら13.29
謝る13.20
肉塊14.28
飯13.57
帰す13.93
反面14.26
遺す14.33
明後日13.81
ながら11.91
こい13.57
ならぬ13.59
当たる13.06
掻く13.85
下に13.15
匂い13.08
手11.97
フン14.00
触れる13.08
心12.57
余り12.47
と言う11.58
溶ける13.59
腐り14.40
怒鳴る13.71
年12.64
ゆっくり12.72
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