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
住処14.11
その通り13.27
12.56
14.43
二人きり13.85
間違う13.21
忌憚のない15.37
とりあえず12.73
二十歳14.14
野菜13.36
二十年14.25
見詰める14.03
さっさと13.12
下に13.15
嘆く13.87
怒鳴る13.71
あんなに13.52
という物12.99
左派13.44
日々13.25
かつて13.09
慰み15.70
与える13.03
遠い13.38
祝詞13.05
眞白17.42
何の12.78
掻く13.85
の様に12.34
12.11
七日12.50
しもうた14.93
分かる12.00
喜ぶ13.26
鹿13.80
知恵を絞る15.83
のです12.21
浮かぶ12.94
時折13.49
三十13.45
そう言った13.01
望み通り14.67
付け12.69
二日13.62
半ば13.39
みたいな12.70
匂い13.08
好き12.59
当たる13.06
最高潮14.64
生まれる13.03
と言うものは13.72
恐れる13.76
崩す13.45
寝そべる14.31
伴侶13.94
嗜める14.49
12.53
鳴らす13.32
恐らくは13.44
悲しむ13.90
風化14.68
ええ12.61
始めて13.15
詫び14.31
睨みつける13.53
12.62
14.58
よもや14.39
外囲13.11
てる11.65
横たわる13.82
あの12.00
12.13
12.86
自身12.69
12.85
二度13.63
憎む14.00
莫迦14.02
やっと13.21
12.64
13.21
愛し合う14.54
12.57
時に12.57
こい13.57
真横14.14
まま12.40
中央13.07
間違いない13.07
少々13.17
それに12.23
12.15
それからというもの15.07
謝る13.20
呑む13.66
意地13.87
土塊14.65
飲む12.84

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