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
帰す13.93
飲む12.84
という物12.99
12.48
そこで12.74
ここ12.11
14.23
ながら11.91
寄せる13.71
14.43
文句13.23
時間12.25
それからというもの15.07
それは11.95
奇麗13.70
ど阿呆15.80
その通り13.27
苦労13.22
共に13.28
過ぎる12.60
確信13.21
時の12.80
歩み寄り14.39
我ら13.27
13.61
もので12.67
決まる13.10
莫迦14.02
必ず13.13
11.97
でかい13.66
空腹14.02
鹿13.80
眞白17.42
居る12.39
明日12.80
本当に12.34
12.53
謝る13.20
再来年15.31
強要14.26
何も12.48
ままに13.37
12.04
付け12.69
忌憚のない15.37
左派13.44
年月14.04
さっさと13.12
兄弟13.59
なるほど12.67
生涯13.91
読み13.20
12.86
腐る13.60
有り難うございました13.41
往く13.36
動かす12.95
知恵を絞る15.83
一幅14.03
ただただ13.80
貴方12.53
掛ける13.30
浮かぶ12.94
増々13.64
12.68
疑う13.25
果てしなく14.71
泣く13.07
わね12.77
12.74
横たわる13.82
木の芽15.70
図体14.52
大切にする14.61
のでは12.62
自身12.69
叶う13.54
いつ13.24
年老い15.08
半ば13.39
怒る12.88
限り12.90
恐らくは13.44
溶ける13.59
いい12.05
下土12.58
12.11
である11.76
憎む14.00
飼う13.95
12.56
体操14.26
12.15
少々13.17
遺す14.33
そうだ12.18
雛鳥15.05
土砂14.34
ばかを言う16.69
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