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CB Droege is an author and voice actor from the Queen City living in the Millionendorf. His writing influences include Philip K. Dick, Bill Bryson, Isaac Asimov, David Sedaris, and Roger Zelazny. He loves wizards and time-travel, but has an irrational distaste for time-traveling wizards. His latest books are Peacemaker and Other Stories and Quantum Age Adventures. He also produces a weekly podcast, in which he reads other people's stories: Manawaker Studio's Flash Fiction Podcast.

Other recent publications include work in Nature, Daily Science Fiction, Fantasia Divinity, Corvus Review, Indestructible, Visitant, Dark Mountain, Farther Stars than These, Archaeopteryx, Broadswords and Blasters, and The Centropic Oracle.

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The Lone and Level Sands

Published Mar 3, 2021 · 315 words (2 minutes) · 36 views

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"They are gone now, as you can see."

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I drove out the the desert with some friends in the middle of a heatwave. The good part was that there wasn’t a soul out there. The bad part was 30 mph winds smacking us in the face with 115 degree heat. It was so hot that the coolant in the Jeep was boiling the whole time.

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Letting On

Published Feb 6, 2021 · 305 words (2 minutes) · 74 views

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"Sometimes they’re good at not letting on.”

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Those who Favor Fire

Published Jan 25, 2021 · 936 words (4 minutes) · 119 views

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A final farewell.

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Without Index

Published Dec 21, 2020 · 378 words (2 minutes) · 125 views

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On the day when the light is meant to, finally, begin to overtake the darkness, a pair of scholars seeks the answers that will save us all from a terrible fate.

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Under Pressure

Published Dec 9, 2020 · 810 words (3 minutes) · 1 like · 139 views

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Dr. Ferenczi's attempts to manufacture a special kind of super nitrate in the lab continue to fail. Is it sabotage? Yes, actually. It's definitely sabotage, and it is essential that she not ever succeed.

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