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
呟き13.31
重ねて13.65
木の芽15.70
まつ毛14.75
運動13.74
わね12.77
巴豆12.47
でかい13.66
明日12.80
話す12.73
14.29
伴侶13.94
見る12.00
その通り13.27
12.86
12.98
埋まる13.77
薄い13.15
有り難うございました13.41
そこで12.74
嘆く13.87
教わる13.70
わけが無い13.49
揺らす13.50
大切にする14.61
14.23
無言13.22
間違う13.21
として11.89
こい13.57
幽か13.93
過ぎる12.60
生きていく13.95
泣き叫ぶ14.27
結構12.82
帰す13.93
愛し13.36
仰る13.51
11.46
ても11.96
幼い13.35
11.60
12.74
やっと13.21
不調14.42
意地13.87
掻く13.85
日光14.36
称賛14.07
こと無く13.11
生まれる13.03
何も12.48
それに12.23
いける13.19
13.59
12.57
呑む13.66
よもや14.39
二十歳14.14
謝る13.20
迎え13.35
やれ13.27
戴き13.44
憎む14.00
余り12.47
あの12.00
蹴飛ばす14.40
中央13.07
最高潮14.64
腹を壊す15.59
睨みつける13.53
いつだって13.91
12.04
詰まり12.59
12.48
驚く12.62
鹿13.80
という物12.99
12.51
こう12.92
感じ12.29
横たわる13.82
何の12.78
見詰める14.03
不知14.59
22.72
昨日22.87
悪い22.37
我が妻25.18
市内22.23
奉加22.99
指先23.46
何時も22.58
長い22.68
22.11
震わせる23.45
初めて22.64
殺し22.99
よう22.31

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