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
苦労13.22
合う12.87
ただただ13.80
妹12.85
我慾13.43
深く13.06
という物12.99
こう12.92
殊に12.16
寝そべる14.31
不知14.59
よもや14.39
声12.02
そう言った13.01
生まれる13.03
泣き叫ぶ14.27
木の芽15.70
ならぬ13.59
限り12.90
体操14.26
静かに13.02
意固地14.92
感じ12.29
謝る13.20
ながら11.91
帰す13.93
溶ける13.59
たる13.17
読み13.20
二度13.63
明日12.80
少々13.17
落った13.58
粒14.09
火12.74
鄙14.43
生涯13.91
いい12.05
鳴らす13.32
あんなに13.52
一葉14.33
柿14.93
間違う13.21
嗜める14.49
疑う13.25
慣れる13.12
ひたすら13.47
じっと13.19
暗闇13.45
こと無く13.11
風化14.68
いける13.19
そうだ12.18
唖14.29
必ず13.13
眞白17.42
のでは12.62
理解12.49
毎日13.21
浮かべる12.57
男12.13
触れ13.33
狩る13.44
自身12.69
ものか13.30
取り合い14.47
何日も14.36
増す13.62
悲しむ13.90
揺らす13.50
上下13.77
のに12.21
一12.47
腹を壊す15.59
そこで12.74
知らない12.68
強要14.26
幻13.61
呑む13.66
熱13.20
来年13.91
ても11.96
返し13.12
二日13.62
と共に12.60
月日14.40
叶う13.54
落とす13.04
生きていく13.95
詫びる14.38
真横14.14
それは11.95
分かる12.00
のです12.21
老13.39
鶉15.72
その場12.86
重ねて13.65
そうっと15.18
鬣14.58

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