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
12.98
という物12.99
浮かべる12.57
12.04
12.57
何の12.78
幼い13.35
知る12.11
三日13.50
居る12.39
匂い13.08
そうっと15.18
憎む14.00
限り12.90
やれ13.27
深く13.06
泣く13.07
に連れ13.76
11.46
の様に12.34
13.03
12.47
12.64
伴侶13.94
供に13.75
飲む12.84
一葉14.33
識る15.81
見初める14.65
時に12.57
不知14.59
12.13
苦労13.22
狩る13.44
重ねて13.65
野菜13.36
と言う11.58
後悔13.30
12.70
詫び14.31
そう言った13.01
運動13.74
ままに13.37
話す12.73
ここ12.11
である11.76
毎日毎日14.60
図体14.52
ど阿呆15.80
一幅14.03
時間12.25
望み通り14.67
拗ねる13.97
なぁ12.56
故郷13.41
12.53
二十年14.25
七日12.50
いける13.19
呻く13.89
他に13.02
だろう11.78
眞白17.42
見詰める14.03
明後日13.81
迎え13.35
やっと13.21
読み13.20
睨みつける13.53
恐れる13.76
最高潮14.64
売り言葉に買い言葉15.09
知恵を絞る15.83
熾す14.84
取る12.69
変わらない13.12
有り難うございました13.41
土砂14.34
12.23
13.47
12.96
朽ち果てる14.70
肉塊14.28
余り12.47
聞く11.95
許す12.89
年月14.04
きっぱり14.05
フン14.00
飼う13.95
忌憚のない15.37
12.86
いい12.05
体操14.26
まま12.40
日光14.36
13.59
薄い13.15
それからというもの15.07
ただただ13.80

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