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I've read a handful of short stories by 太宰 and this was by far the easiest. It has little in the way of old grammar and the vocabulary is neither extensive nor extremely old fashioned. That said, I somehow landed it at 26 (as of May 2022) and feel it's probably closer to the 28-30 range for "comfortable" reading, but regardless I don't think it will prove too much for anyone who can read modern novels. It's only about 6 pages long as well, so not a huge time investment.
Plot wise, it's a poetic monologue of someone sitting at the train station, waiting. I enjoyed the atmosphere of it a lot, as I usually do with this author.