Clive the Sheep — Complete Chapter Guide & Reading Order

A chapter-by-chapter guide to every stop on Clive's journey from warehouse forklift driver to accidental time traveller. All 18 chapters are free to read online.

Chapter 1

Forklift Fiasco

A soda can, a swerve, and the worst day the warehouse has ever seen.

Clive, a sheep who drives a forklift in a warehouse, swerves to avoid a soda can and destroys half the inventory. Rather than face the consequences, he floors it through the warehouse doors and escapes on the forklift at fifteen miles per hour.

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Clive explains to a police officer that he is, in fact, a human with a medical condition.

Pulled over by Officer Burke, Clive claims to be a human named Mr. Beef with a rare wool-based medical condition. Burke, overwhelmed by the paperwork implications, lets him go.

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A neon hat, mirrored sunglasses, and a fish market receipt that doubles as a boarding pass.

Clive disguises himself with a neon hat and mirrored sunglasses, uses a fish market receipt as a boarding pass, and bluffs his way through airport security as "Mr. Beef" to board a plane.

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Clive opens the emergency exit. At thirty thousand feet. On purpose.

Mid-flight, Clive accidentally opens the emergency exit at thirty thousand feet. He deploys a parachute and lands on the wing of another plane passing below.

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The captain's unconscious. The co-pilot's useless. The sheep's in charge.

With the captain unconscious and the co-pilot panicking, Clive ends up in the cockpit. He crash-lands the plane in the African savanna through a combination of luck and button-pressing.

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Crash-landing, monkeys, and a marriage proposal Clive didn't see coming.

After crash-landing in Africa, Clive is found by a troop of monkeys who believe he fulfils an ancient prophecy. He is married to Lulu, a gentle monkey, in a ceremony he doesn't fully understand.

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Sacred bananas, an unwanted admirer, and a monkey who narrates everything.

Clive is sent on a quest to find sacred bananas. He's accompanied by Bobo (a hype man), Pogo (an unwanted admirer), and Zazu (a self-appointed narrator who commentates everything).

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Chapter 8

Safari Showdown

A stolen jeep, a hungry lion, and a gap between two elephants that's definitely too narrow.

Clive steals a safari jeep and drives through the savanna, narrowly avoiding a lion, squeezing between two elephants, and leaving a trail of chaos across the African plains.

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Clive says goodbye, stows away on a ship, and pulls a lever marked DO NOT PULL.

Clive says goodbye to the monkeys, stows away on a cargo ship, and immediately pulls a lever marked DO NOT PULL, triggering an animal uprising on board.

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A sarcastic parrot, a stolen meal, and a collision with a submarine.

Adrift at sea, Clive meets Captain Squawk, a sarcastic parrot who's been a stowaway for three years. A storm hits, and they collide with a submarine.

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Mistaken for a secret agent. Invents a tactical manoeuvre by accident.

The submarine crew mistakes Clive for "Agent Wool," a legendary secret operative. He accidentally invents a tactical manoeuvre called the Wool Spiral that saves the submarine.

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A glowing cavern, a pod of dolphins, and a whale that carries a submarine on its back.

The submarine discovers a bioluminescent underwater cavern. A pod of dolphins guides them, and a whale carries the submarine on its back to the surface near a mysterious island.

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Another prophecy. Another throne. Another sheep who can't sit still.

Clive washes up on an island where the inhabitants crown him chief based on yet another prophecy. He discovers a hidden laboratory with a chalkboard and draws a banana on it.

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Clive draws a banana on a chalkboard and tears a hole in space-time.

Clive's banana drawing on the laboratory chalkboard accidentally completes a physics equation that tears a hole in space-time, opening a wormhole.

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Chapter 15

Sheep in Space

Alien admirers, a holographic badge, and a lever that should not have been leaned on.

Clive travels through the wormhole into space, where aliens give him a holographic badge reading "Dr. Clive E. Sheep." He leans on a lever that activates a time vortex.

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Ancient Egypt. The pyramids. A scribe who thinks a banana is cosmic truth.

The time vortex sends Clive to ancient Egypt in 2500 BCE. He accidentally helps build the pyramids and invents hieroglyphs when a scribe interprets his banana doodle as cosmic truth.

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Doodles become proof. An apple becomes science. A sheep becomes a legend.

Clive arrives in Renaissance Italy and meets Galileo, who interprets Clive's doodles as mathematical proof of heliocentrism. An apple falling becomes the basis for a scientific breakthrough.

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Chapter 18

Future Shock

Every accident was a lesson. Every disaster was data. And it all looks like a forklift.

Clive arrives in the future, where Director Voss reveals that every accident, every disaster, every wrong turn was actually data leading to a grand unified theory. And the answer looks like a forklift.

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