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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Statistics

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
一握15.94
評価13.17
驚く12.62
だろう11.78
嘆く13.87
見る12.00
12.85
ただただ13.80
風化14.68
12.96
奇麗13.70
11.59
12.90
もので12.67
恐らくは13.44
不知14.59
13.61
わね12.77
匂い13.08
黙る12.92
不調14.42
混じる13.46
のでは12.62
手探り14.60
12.86
年月14.04
少しずつ13.39
話す12.73
12.64
12.96
一幅14.03
そうっと15.18
14.09
何の12.78
体調13.59
前に12.25
今更ながら14.17
二日13.62
12.51
12.13
14.93
と言う11.58
過ぎる12.60
少々13.17
合う12.87
読み13.20
切ない14.07
何日も14.36
ても11.96
供に13.75
歩み寄り14.39
謝る13.20
雛鳥15.05
なるほど12.67
みたいな12.70
再来年15.31
寛い14.42
反面14.26
愛し13.36
てる11.65
倒れる13.23
ここ12.11
12.57
憎む14.00
寝そべる14.31
他に13.02
巴豆12.47
拗ねる13.97
よもや14.39
こと無く13.11
故郷13.41
感じ12.29
感想13.18
12.62
14.58
に連れ13.76
確信13.21
12.70
空腹14.02
左派13.44
意地13.87
13.39
嗜める14.49
半ば13.39
生き続ける14.91
きっぱり14.05
当たる13.06
真横14.14
12.98
でかい13.66
一つ12.53
祝詞13.05
中央13.07
という物12.99
浮かぶ12.94
後悔13.30
12.02
その時12.75
12.56
ままに13.37

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