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
切ない14.07
11.60
二人きり13.85
前に12.25
もっとも12.94
崩す13.45
12.57
12.57
知恵を絞る15.83
遠い13.38
無言13.22
恐れる13.76
慰み15.70
でかい13.66
詫びる14.38
上下13.77
変え13.14
憎む14.00
取る12.69
慌てる12.84
肉塊14.28
飲む12.84
確信13.21
12.85
少しずつ13.39
こい13.57
時に12.57
重ねて13.65
不調14.42
ええ12.61
12.23
反面14.26
13.59
いつ13.24
識る15.81
冷んやり14.32
陽だまり15.05
諫める14.94
だろう11.78
奇麗13.70
生まれる13.03
言い返し14.58
寛い14.42
12.04
寝そべる14.31
聞く11.95
いつだって13.91
遺す14.33
生きていく13.95
じっと13.19
14.93
14.28
よもや14.39
迎え13.35
毎日13.21
驚く12.62
14.23
生き続ける14.91
下土12.58
生涯13.91
合う12.87
日光14.36
暗闇13.45
殊に12.16
一葉14.33
静かに13.02
揺らす13.50
もので12.67
腹を壊す15.59
朽ち果てる14.70
莫迦14.02
12.47
11.59
明日12.80
着物13.99
12.90
ならば12.57
一幅14.03
そう言った13.01
そこで12.74
13.23
もの派12.90
忌憚のない15.37
という物12.99
居る12.39
貴方12.53
強要14.26
愛し合う14.54
のでは12.62
多い12.52
泣く13.07
13.20
溶ける13.59
寄せる13.71
本当に12.34
しみじみ13.97
替え14.19
ひたすら13.47
七日12.50
若しや13.84

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