The Star Mouse by Fredric Brown - Fredric Brown Short Stories
The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast - Vintage Sci-Fi Short Stories
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The Hare Professor's Only Real Invention, the Rocket Fuel, Was Not One
Hare Oberberger was not really an inventor. He could take other people's ideas and make them work. His only real invention, the rocket fuel that wasn't one, had been turned over to the United States government. And it proved to be something already known and discarded because it was too expensive for practical use. But Mickey cared not a wint; in the shadow of the tapering aluminum alloy cylinder, he waxed fat and happy.
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