Celestial Study. Chapter 1.
Jikuk had been found adrift, aboard one of the station’s short range shuttles. perplexingly, he was over twenty million light-years away aboard a vehicle incapable of travelling a hundredth of such a distance.
Derelict
On the way, however, they found the ship he was travelling on adrift with only its transponder active. "you sure about this? if there's some kind of disaster surely it's better to leave it for authorities?"
Aberration, Part 3 - The Gift
"the storm cast you adrift." pause. "so i brought you here." pause. "i want off the island." pause. "you want off the island." pause. "but i need someone strong." pause. "and you'd like strength." pause. "i think we should collaborate."
At Night, He Walks
It is a moonlit night, and in the moonlight his white fur, and the jacket he wears, a long blue thing with a high collar, has a spectral effect, ghostly, as though he were the spirit of a victorian sea captain, a pirate born three centuries too late, adrift
Tethered Fates - Chapter One
The dragon crackled with glee jumping on the human and sending them adrift. a warm tongue attacked his grimacing face while her grip held him in place.
Any Port, Chapter 3: Adrift.
#3 of any port * * * any port, part 3: adrift. * * * radio static hissed in competition with the atmosphere. lennon tried to find an orientation that would give them an update on the weather, just to hear confirmed what they suspected.
Scales and Honor: The Shattered God: Chapter 8
His hinds stirred at the salacious thoughts set his mind adrift. “instead we drag ourselves into a war, say to hell with fate and forge our own path. how heroic of us indeed.”
Night Terrors: Don't Blink
I started to feel dizzy and faint, like something was picking my mind up, and sending it to float amongst a squall of clouds.. hazy, adrift. bereft of worries or concerns. "yes. i came here to seduce you," i heard myself mutter.
Here, There Be Dragons - Ch. 4 - Deep Spaced Gargoyle
The adrift sphere continued to correct its course, letting the momentum it already had propel it through the black void, towards what they hoped would not be another battle. it would be three days before they arrived.
Flight of the Choir
Flutter and fall from skies cluttered with gull, adrift the feathers fall deprived. a current shall wash the foul from fowl amid the sun's beaming guise. aloft each wing, they chirp and sing to which each bird fondly replies.
Wolf Call, Wolf Cry, Wolf Shout
Would taint and marr its light hurting, burning, filling with blight only hope held on to life knowing of more than strife for under this moon so bright twas a wolf of bright light soaring, diving, flying swift soul free above a body left adrift
Quiet Awakening (Welded Sunset)
#241 of short stories a mecha space whale wakes up, adrift. ~ from the current distance, the system's star was only a somewhat brighter speck from amongst the omnipresent sky of stars and empty.