The Dragon and His Wife

The Dragon and His Wife

とびらの

"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)

Read Now

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
ええ12.61
評価13.17
触れる13.08
肉塊14.28
芳しい14.50
ひたすら13.47
三十13.45
詫びる14.38
陽だまり15.05
輝く13.03
哭く12.05
三日13.50
気丈14.44
強要14.26
四十13.76
12.85
時に12.57
続いて13.13
12.74
木の芽15.70
前に12.25
拗ねる13.97
愛し合う14.54
往く13.36
やっと13.21
余り12.47
寝そべる14.31
土砂14.34
12.53
それは11.95
そこで12.74
無言13.22
12.90
12.11
泣き叫ぶ14.27
12.98
来年13.91
一幅14.03
いける13.19
一つ12.53
図体14.52
空腹14.02
奇麗13.70
のです12.21
13.21
見初める14.65
結構12.82
12.51
ゆっくり12.72
日光14.36
梳る15.70
しみじみ13.97
という物12.99
12.57
愛し13.36
ならば12.57
わね12.77
ものを12.71
動かす12.95
12.23
柔らかい13.35
の様に12.34
フン14.00
諫める14.94
怒鳴る13.71
尖った14.13
その通り13.27
連れ込み15.52
生まれる13.03
居る12.39
再来年15.31
まま12.40
どうにかこうにか14.95
貴方12.53
食い13.66
みたいな12.70
何日も14.36
微笑み13.30
14.43
毎日13.21
のでは12.62
12.82
喜ぶ13.26
間違う13.21
14.93
鳴らす13.32
あけび16.81
何も12.48
狩る13.44
故郷13.41
と共に12.60
14.58
揺らす13.50
莫迦14.02
14.29
文句13.23
同時に12.65
静かに13.02
疑う13.25

Showing 201 - 300 of 553 words