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
12.48
いける13.19
識る15.81
多い12.52
ただただ13.80
拗ねる13.97
嘆く13.87
土塊14.65
少しずつ13.39
12.26
哭く12.05
呻く13.89
明後日13.81
忌憚のない15.37
愛し合う14.54
12.64
当たる13.06
知る12.11
見詰める14.03
ど阿呆15.80
呟き13.31
であろう13.07
こう12.92
睨みつける13.53
日々13.25
触れる13.08
不調14.42
何日も14.36
一つ12.53
埋まる13.77
梳る15.70
前に12.25
わね12.77
聞く11.95
ならぬ13.59
感想13.18
ですら13.29
12.98
取る12.69
悲しむ13.90
二十年14.25
見る12.00
一幅14.03
詫びる14.38
一葉14.33
付け12.69
12.86
ものか13.30
時折13.49
貴方12.53
真横14.14
疑う13.25
落とす13.04
12.15
増々13.64
もっとも12.94
上下13.77
同時に12.65
美しさ13.72
12.96
売り言葉に買い言葉15.09
どうにかこうにか14.95
自身12.69
12.53
求める13.21
気丈14.44
三十13.45
感じ12.29
呼吸13.43
分かる12.00
叶う13.54
連れ込み15.52
言いきる14.88
浮かぶ12.94
許す12.89
言い返し14.58
再来年15.31
陽だまり15.05
体操14.26
巴豆12.47
熾す14.84
外囲13.11
匂い13.08
評価13.17
時間12.25
怒鳴る13.71
知恵を絞る15.83
運動13.74
少々13.17
芳しい14.50
ひたすら13.47
必ず13.13
教わる13.70
寛い14.42
あけび16.81
与える13.03
大地13.20
返し13.12
詰まり12.59
柔らかい13.35

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