So.
You’ve woken up in an insane asylum. Feeling hazy how you got here. Faces so familiar, hiding strangers you thought you knew. Lies bleed from the plasma screens, while only yesterday they seemed like fresh spring truths. You look around, but see no way out of here.
Don’t recoil, traveller, into that shell prepared for you, the mould to fit this sleepwalker’s dream. Nor settle for another crappy meal in a different padded cell. Fight the Piper’s scream singing, “I’m too busy to reach for the light
of the light of stars…”
…within.
Our Work
To heal the world, we must first heal our hearts. For that, I must first know who I am. And for that, I must know the truth of the illusion surrounding me. But if others don’t want to… their loss! Because I’m now aided by what they cannot see, through a world they will never know.
Independent
Here, we view our collective home from a different place, through the lenses of creative prose, poetry & short fiction.
Beyond the Norm
Ignoring the etiquettes of political-pseudo-science-AI-fact-checker, official correctness, and preferring the rugged journey to the truth.
Inspiring
Saying, look around you, understand your place in the bigger picture, then reach for the higher ground—always.
Sure, I could babble on about why you should read my stuff. Pluck those emotional strings until you feel all gooey inside. Flick those psychological triggers to make you believe. But I thought I’d give you a free book instead, so you can make up your own mind:
One day, I wrote a poem that took me sixteen years to understand. But the journey shaped my writing, myself, and opened the doors to something… unexpected.
Still not sure? Then read through our blog:
Something to Graze On
What the FAQ!
Write stuff!
Three things are certain in life: You are born, you will die, and in the middle you will face problems. And these days, lift a rock and an expert has the cure to your disease, the algorithm to your wealth, and a course that will bring you bounding happiness and joy in a world crumbling all around you.
Turn a leaf on any tree, and out pops a guru who’ll change you life forever by the end of a three month subscription. While your very essence – that no one but you has access to – will be led to great spiritual heights you didn’t know about before.
A problem-solution loop, developed in the world of corporate marketing more than a century ago, and dribbled into the public arena as something new. Where once inside, you’re simply led to the next problem, and its (non-)solution. And everybody’s jumped on board like leaches.
Well, you won’t get that here. What you will get is stuff to read, stuff to think about, stuff to internalize, stuff to research. And yes, stuff that can make a difference. Because everything is from more than 20 years experience in getting here, then more years of moving forward, or rather, tripping and stumbling forward, on this new path in life.
What you do with any of this is up to you.
Because I’ve had it with this insanity sold as normality, the hypocrisy, the lies, the mass-lethargy in the face of the greatest atrocities in history shaping the future. My daughter’s future.
Because I’m sick to death of being treated like a thing that everyone higher up the foodchain pushes around, exploites, makes money from, then disposes of as they please.
But it’s not about rage, burning, and tearing down. Rather, it’s taking these sentiments and finding the way to transform it into something positive, something constructive.
It’s also satirical. See The Awakening of Fedup Sheep.
Each of us has what I call “an inherent creative principle.” Something that’s unique to ourselves, which turns work into art, art in being, and which changes everything.
But I don’t fool myself.
To think society is going to change is turning up the nose to the message screaming at us from past millenniums, while ignoring what’s happening all around us.
So, to think the world will change course is wishful thinking, and unrealistic.
Yet individually? Now, that’s a different story. This is the one we’re interested in.
And from there, who knows could happen?
Fedup Sheep unmasks the dillusion and encourages rediscovering the forgotten the art of being through the lenses of creative prose, poetry, and the occasional short fiction.
Download my free book Independent Journeys. Or test drive my growing amount of free stuff and then download my free book. Should hanging out by the fireside tickle your fancy, then join the Fedup Family (link at the end of Independent Journeys or below) and start receiving our monthly newsletter, called Bleet! Here, you’ll have access to stuff not available in the public domain. For those not sure if they want to come indoors and wish to hang out on the threshold a while longer, we post stuff on X, Substack, Tahut, UpScrolled, and Telegram. Discover the nuts-’n-blots in The Fedup Experience and The Fedup Privacy Thingy (links in the “About” menu above.)
Of course!
Fedup Sheep merchandise would be cool—don’t you think? Making space for others to publish their works could prove enlightening. Maybe poetry competitions. But each of these takes time, and I’m a one-man band.
If you’ve clicked all the links on your way down here, and browsed through the menu at the top over there, then you have a clear-enough picture of what we’re about, and how we operate.
My work is taking things not to the next level, nor some other fantastical impression, but to the place things naturally should be, once waking up from La-la land.
Or maybe it’s just something different to read?
But if none of this gels with you, then perhaps you shouldn’t bother.
The Next Step:
Don’t settle
in this wasteland ‘cause it’s green.
Keep going, keep going.
Follow the stream
to mountains there.
You feel the breath
now
touch your soul? Here.
And still
keep going, keep going…
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