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
21.64
経つ23.15
22.72
問いかけ23.56
恨む23.75
こんなに23.14
21.86
これは22.28
22.12
殺し22.99
悦び25.15
そう21.75
22.78
今日22.61
市内22.23
何時も22.58
愛しい23.98
変わる22.75
それでも22.43
仕草23.50
24.82
そんな21.84
23.69
あなた様24.20
夫婦23.61
拐う24.89
尽きる23.67
だから21.99
22.24
我が妻25.18
虚空23.86
それが22.31
もう22.11
クセ24.64
恋しい24.23
違いない23.16
食らう23.56
ては22.43
奉加22.99
ばかり22.53
撫でる22.95
笑う22.45
よう22.31
きっと22.65
克く22.46
暮らす23.59
これまで23.00
烏兎24.54
から21.17
震わせる23.45
気持ち22.61
去年23.78
在る21.55
初めて22.64
毎年23.95
昨日22.87
取っ23.00
しまう22.03
今年23.34
23.18
答え22.75
回る22.52
長い22.68
22.71
答える22.69
悪い22.37
困惑23.35
悲しむ13.90
やれ13.27
分かる12.00
同時に12.65
12.70
いつ13.24
評価13.17
結構12.82
それから12.79
増々13.64
12.31
そこで12.74
と言う11.58
なぁ12.56
一握15.94
共に13.28
やがて13.09
14.29
意地13.87
寝そべる14.31
呻く13.89
居る12.39
雛鳥15.05
フン14.00
称賛14.07
ならぬ13.59
とは11.95
詫び14.31
今更ながら14.17
重ねて13.65
ものか13.30
13.23
ようだ12.24

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