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The Snowman’s Fantasy (Radio Drama)Author: Kishida Kunio

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Original Title	雪だるまの幻想（ラジオ・ドラマ）
Author	岸田国士
Genre	Modern Short Fiction
Author Type	Male Author
Summary	In a remote riverside hut veiled in perpetual winter, an elderly man’s solitary existence stirs whispers among villagers. His family arrives from Tokyo, determined to coax him back to the city, but he resists with quiet defiance. Amidst heavy snowfall, his sculptor son crafts a hauntingly lifelike snow sculpture—a woman’s figure that mirrors the old man’s long-lost wife. As twilight deepens, the boundary between memory and reality blurs: the sculpture seems to whisper secrets only he can hear, drawing him into a spectral dialogue laden with decades of unspoken grief and longing. The children grow increasingly uneasy as their grandfather slips further into communion with the frozen effigy, his whispers merging with the wind. By dawn, fresh snowfall conceals all traces of his presence, leaving only unanswered questions beneath the silent white expanse. A haunting meditation on loss and the ephemeral nature of connection, this tale weaves melancholy and magic into the icy landscape where past and present dissolve like snowflakes on skin.