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2025 - Adrift

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Title

2025 - Adrift

Subject

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Sprigs & Kindling

Creator

James L. Smith

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Subtitle

Written for Trophy Dark

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A pulp science fiction Incursion of strangeness and survival

Story

The configuration of the skies had changed beyond all recognition; the Signs were no longer those that are known to terrestrial astronomers; far-off stars had leapt into blazing suns and had faded back to stars; and there had been a flying glimpse of stranger planets. And year by year the cold terror of the endless deeps, the vertiginous horror of untold infinitude, had crept like a slow paralysis upon the souls of the crew; and a nostalgia for the distant earth had swept them with unutterable sickness; till they could bear it no longer, and had made their hasty, ill-planned attempt to secure control of the vessel and turn it homeward.

- Clark Ashton Smith, Marooned in Andromeda, 1930

Read Sprigs & Kindling Volume 5 (2025) in full here.

Editor-In-Chief
Amanda Mullins

Chief Layout Artist
Alexander Thomas Guy Coursolle

Chief Copy Editor
Rebecca Hall

Deputy Editor
J. Carter

Layout Artist
Arthur Wells

Editing/Layout
Valentin Gerber, Jack Hargreaves, Chaotic Jamgochian, Mike Martens, Nicolas Ronvel, Jesse Ross, Brian Sago, Michael Van Vleet

Sprigs & Kindling is not affiliated withHedgemaze Press, Gauntlet Publishing, or Jesse Ross, but is published with permission.

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Images

Adrift cover page
Adrift cover page Source: Unless noted otherwise, images are provided under a no attribution licence from vecteezy.com, free licence from unsplash.com, and public domain (creative commons.org.)
Creator: Arthur Wells (layout artist)
Sprigs & Kindling Cover, vol. 5
Sprigs & Kindling Cover, vol. 5 Creator: Jesse Ross Date: 2025
Sprigs and Kindling table of contents, volume 5
Sprigs and Kindling table of contents, volume 5 Creator: Sprigs and Kindling Zine Date: 2025
Image of Springs and Kinglind cover page for Adrift, p. 131
Image of Springs and Kinglind cover page for Adrift, p. 131 Date: 2025

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Additional Info

James L. Smith, “2025 - Adrift,” James Louis Smith, accessed November 8, 2026, https://jameslouissmith.com/items/show/27.