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
求める13.21
呻く13.89
同時に12.65
必ず13.13
自身12.69
称賛14.07
時の12.80
そう言った13.01
息12.82
何度も12.93
混じる13.46
野菜13.36
好き12.59
ど阿呆15.80
殊に12.16
一つ12.53
本当に12.34
掛ける13.30
我ら13.27
詰まり12.59
生きていく13.95
それから12.79
ここ12.11
果てしなく14.71
尖った14.13
恐らくは13.44
続く12.90
輪13.59
遠い13.38
のでは12.62
着物13.99
忌憚のない15.37
三十13.45
ままに13.37
最高潮14.64
生涯13.91
苦労13.22
始めて13.15
嫌12.74
粒14.09
薄い13.15
頃12.85
裏13.22
慌てる12.84
男12.13
朽ち果てる14.70
共に13.28
手探り14.60
唖14.29
二度13.63
兄弟13.59
柿14.93
少々13.17
である11.76
もの派12.90
触れ13.33
ながら11.91
見初める14.65
限り12.90
鼻13.23
半ば13.39
伴侶13.94
土12.90
体12.15
毎日13.21
崩す13.45
爪13.21
なぁ12.56
再来年15.31
愛し13.36
そうっと15.18
分かる12.00
その通り13.27
し11.60
幼い13.35
五日13.24
もっとも12.94
それからというもの15.07
連れ込み15.52
祝詞13.05
文句13.23
鶉15.72
鳴らす13.32
増々13.64
しもうた14.93
あの12.00
切ない14.07
無言13.22
腐る13.60
居る12.39
理解12.49
肉塊14.28
付け12.69
年月14.04
生き続ける14.91
寄せる13.71
朝12.96
諫める14.94
ものですか14.53
と言う11.58

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