An Encounter (from 'Dubliners') - By James Joyce (Read by Bare Sounds)
Two Dublin schoolboys ditch class chasing adventure, but instead meet a strange, unsettling man. The story strips the romance from boyhood freedom, revealing how danger, disillusionment, and adult corruption intrude on youthful fantasy - another quiet Joyce epiphany where escape leads nowhere.
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