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
寝そべる14.31
詫び14.31
13.67
揺らす13.50
疑う13.25
見詰める14.03
帰す13.93
鹿13.80
12.51
微笑み13.30
左派13.44
変え13.14
やっと13.21
嗜める14.49
替え14.19
続いて13.13
生きていく13.95
同時に12.65
12.64
他に13.02
やも知れぬ14.57
必ず13.13
きっぱり14.05
手探り14.60
余り12.47
深く13.06
12.86
若しや13.84
そこで12.74
野菜13.36
13.22
日々13.25
大地13.20
住処14.11
供に13.75
憎む14.00
12.53
12.02
重ねて13.65
として11.89
土砂14.34
崩す13.45
こと無く13.11
無言13.22
12.11
11.97
売り言葉に買い言葉15.09
ええ12.61
フン14.00
12.82
しもうた14.93
わね12.77
後悔13.30

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