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
さっさと13.12
やれ13.27
静かに13.02
与える13.03
筈がない13.40
意地13.87
前に12.25
巴豆12.47
その時12.75
あけび16.81
見る12.00
一12.47
共に13.28
やも知れぬ14.57
慣れる13.12
のでは12.62
やがて13.09
かつて13.09
胸12.68
足12.57
手11.97
日光14.36
明日12.80
ひたすら13.47
二十歳14.14
知る12.11
五日13.24
愛し13.36
体調13.59
読み13.20
苦労13.22
間違いない13.07
望み通り14.67
小さい12.69
ものか13.30
風化14.68
幽か13.93
変わらない13.12
下に13.15
大地13.20
下土12.58
得12.96
鹿13.80
掻く13.85
他に13.02
後悔13.30
鼻13.23
迎え13.35
美しさ13.72
きっぱり14.05
鶉15.72
蹴飛ばす14.40
年老い15.08
忌憚のない15.37
住処14.11
涙12.98
見初める14.65
肉塊14.28
頑14.23
無言13.22
もっとも12.94
始めて13.15
落った13.58
怒る12.88
梳る15.70
とりあえず12.73
頬12.86
野菜13.36
憎む14.00
何度も12.93
なぁ12.56
わけが無い13.49
間違う13.21
見詰める14.03
どうにかこうにか14.95
今更ながら14.17
溶ける13.59
我ら13.27
付け12.69
感想13.18
怒鳴る13.71
何の12.78
文句13.23
好き12.59
幼き14.44
悲しむ13.90
呑む13.66
それから12.79
気12.13
脅し13.90
しもうた14.93
明後日13.81
狩る13.44
続いて13.13
だろう11.78
眞白17.42
埋まる13.77
でかい13.66
朝12.96
まま12.40

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