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
伴侶13.94
下に13.15
でかい13.66
12.62
12.82
外囲13.11
幼き14.44
15.72
殊に12.16
なぁ12.56
もの派12.90
暗中模索16.09
そこで12.74
鳴らす13.32
知恵を絞る15.83
やれ13.27
三日13.50
まつ毛14.75
若しや13.84
不知14.59
往く13.36
こい13.57
13.21
時に12.57
哭く12.05
陽だまり15.05
14.28
何も12.48
当たる13.06
見詰める14.03
ええ12.61
驚く12.62
意地13.87
限り12.90
巴豆12.47
14.09
その通り13.27
少しずつ13.39
睨みつける13.53
てる11.65
時間12.25
12.48
七日12.50
12.98
大切にする14.61
と言うものは13.72
左派13.44
称賛14.07
教わる13.70
呑む13.66
掻く13.85
13.20
愛し合う14.54
やも知れぬ14.57
よもや14.39
12.02
始めて13.15
小さい12.69
静かに13.02
野菜13.36
ならば12.57
重ねて13.65
気丈14.44
聞く11.95
腹を壊す15.59
脅し13.90
求める13.21
12.23
肉塊14.28
13.59
居る12.39
12.09
貴方12.53
11.60
いける13.19
半ば13.39
四十13.76
過ぎる12.60
12.70
浮かべる12.57
掛ける13.30
理解12.49
木の芽15.70
の様に12.34
最高潮14.64
雛鳥15.05
共に13.28
横たわる13.82
少々13.17
手探り14.60
嘆く13.87
それは11.95
苦労13.22
帰す13.93
12.90
ひたすら13.47
ものを12.71
泣き叫ぶ14.27
寄せる13.71
前に12.25

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