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Independent Journeys

One day, I woke up.

Or I thought I had.

Because it took four more years to see that I had simply woken up in a different padded cell of the same asylum; another fifteen years to see the light of day, and another two years to cross the threshold into clarity, certainty, and a new life.

A 21-year transformation from ape-person-thing to human-thing (according to present calculations), and in the process I discovered the greatest deception in history. A generational conditioning that begins with what you believe about yourself.

I’m Brent j. Slabbert, and I share this crazy, mixed up, and yes, dangerous, yet, let’s not forget, beautiful and incredible world with you. And one day, I wrote a poem that took me sixteen years to undertand.

Independent Journeys is a free publication of around 12000 words that twines through events before and during this transformation. A kind-of (mini) mini-memoir, if you like, a peek into my inner, private sanctum, that will—or should if you’re a human being—strike similar chords with your heart as we view the world, and more importantly, ourselves through the lenses of creative prose, poetry, and short fiction, polished with a few drops of research, and carried in a weather-beaten rucksack of personal experience.

All of which breathed life into Fedup Sheep.

And by the end, you’ll know:

  • The poem that took sixteen years to understand.
  • Enough about me, where I’ve come from, and how I got here.
  • What I write, how I write, and why I write what I write and how I write it.
  • What my work can, or might, do for you.
  • And why you should join the one and only Fedup Family.

Start journeying, traveller!

Read the introduction online:

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Or push the fed-up sheep for the whole thing:

No sign-up, no registration. You’ll be taken directly to the PDF in my personal Proton Drive.

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Fedup Sheep delves into topics that call for independent thinking and may invoke introspection through the lenses of creative prose, poetry & short fiction. We provide both online (website, social media, and email) and offline (PDF) material. The various writing styles may or may not be used together, determined by the author’s creative spirit, circumstances, health, etc. at the time. The views and beliefs expressed are the author’s (Fedup Sheep’s), and topics may be deemed offensive. Those who go into a wobbly in the face of certain truths easily seen by looking for oneself, but prefer not to, are advised to go elsewhere. Hence, Fedup Sheep cannot guarantee the safety of one’s present world-view, and accepts no responsibility nor shall be liable for any loss or damage of any kind, including emotional and psychological, caused by interacting with us. Both online material (website, social media, and email) and offline material (PDF) may contain links to third parties that may not reflect our views and beliefs. By using our website, social media, email, and PDFs you acknowledge and agree that Fedup Sheep cannot be held responsible, and shall not be liable for the content, advertisements, policies, cookies, webhooks, analytical trackers, AI bots, AI agents, AI Large Language Models, or anything else we personally may not agree with—that exists now and in the future—from other websites. The same applies to the applications, payment providers, and hosting services (email and website) we use. Fedup Sheep reserves the right to change this disclaimer, and any content on the website, without notice. By interacting with Fedup Sheep (online and offline), you accept—even if not necessarily agree—to the conditions listed above. For a deep dive, please read The Fedup Experience & The Fedup Privacy Thingy (links below).

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