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
遺す14.33
嘆く13.87
奇麗13.70
のでは12.62
浅い13.66
知らない12.68
同時に12.65
運動13.74
あんなに13.52
過ぎる12.60
わ12.11
のです12.21
揺らす13.50
だろう11.78
眞白17.42
ものを12.71
かつて13.09
決まる13.10
評価13.17
それから12.79
毎日13.21
驚く12.62
であろう13.07
鹿13.80
我慾13.43
不知14.59
少しずつ13.39
時間12.25
泣き叫ぶ14.27
さ11.59
ひたすら13.47
爪13.21
さっさと13.12
陽だまり15.05
やれ13.27
ものですか14.53
恐らくは13.44
その場12.86
前12.31
幽か13.93
睨みつける13.53
柿14.93
少々13.17
洞14.28
果てしなく14.71
のに12.21
きっぱり14.05
土12.90
忌憚のない15.37
嗜める14.49
三日13.50
形12.70
前に12.25
あの12.00
死13.03
黙る12.92
確信13.21
女12.48
混じる13.46
梳る15.70
と言う11.58
腐り14.40
何度も12.93
憎む14.00
獣12.86
村12.56
共に13.28
三十13.45
狩る13.44
教わる13.70
男12.13
諫める14.94
限り12.90
左派13.44
殊に12.16
怒鳴る13.71
変え13.14
哭く12.05
間違いない13.07
下土12.58
しみじみ13.97
求愛14.90
気丈14.44
飯13.57
粒14.09
回る22.52
在る21.55
拐う24.89
我が妻25.18
髪22.71
長い22.68
楽しい22.76
これは22.28
経つ23.15
中21.86
答え22.75
困惑23.35
しまう22.03
病23.69

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