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
我ら13.27
筈がない13.40
として11.89
気丈14.44
帰す13.93
13.22
である11.76
12.90
再来年15.31
12.86
13.20
貴方12.53
それに12.23
寝そべる14.31
二度13.63
怒る12.88
伴侶13.94
取り合い14.47
12.57
ならぬ13.59
のでは12.62
さっさと13.12
哭く12.05
14.43
ても11.96
柔らかい13.35
いける13.19
売り言葉に買い言葉15.09
食い13.66
14.58
分かる12.00
ただただ13.80
慰み15.70
静かに13.02
寄せる13.71
過ぎる12.60
浮かべる12.57
いつ13.24
12.74
四十13.76
12.02
13.03
その時12.75
上下13.77
ばかを言う16.69
12.48
時に12.57
それからというもの15.07
12.86
腐る13.60
呼吸13.43
ここ12.11
二人きり13.85

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