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
11.59
合う12.87
陽だまり15.05
間違う13.21
売り言葉に買い言葉15.09
謝る13.20
13.21
多い12.52
触れ13.33
12.31
何度も12.93
14.93
二十年14.25
動かす12.95
12.57
こい13.57
飲む12.84
一握15.94
朽ち果てる14.70
14.28
13.59
供に13.75
戴き13.44
重ねて13.65
木の芽15.70
14.23
自身12.69
である11.76
二人きり13.85
とは11.95
切ない14.07
それから12.79
空腹14.02
美しさ13.72
呻く13.89
続いて13.13
ものを12.71
まま12.40
ここ12.11
確信13.21
連れ込み15.52
11.60
野菜13.36
じっと13.19
であろう13.07
と言うものは13.72
二度13.63
12.74
識る15.81
やがて13.09
どうにかこうにか14.95
13.57
寝そべる14.31
憎む14.00
横たわる13.82
やれ13.27
月日14.40
増々13.64
もので12.67
変え13.14
決まる13.10
12.64
よもや14.39
てる11.65
と言う11.58
上下13.77
掛ける13.30
掻く13.85
の様に12.34
肉塊14.28
熾す14.84
迎え13.35
もっとも12.94
12.51
と共に12.60
当たる13.06
筈がない13.40
のに12.21
毎日毎日14.60
怒る12.88
望み通り14.67
無言13.22
五日13.24
不知14.59
それに12.23
幽か13.93
七日12.50
あの12.00
諫める14.94
求愛14.90
故郷13.41
下に13.15
12.13
腐る13.60
生涯13.91
生き続ける14.91
さっさと13.12
生まれる13.03
柔らかい13.35
こと無く13.11

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