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Bisected8
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(Primordial Chaos)
2013-05-25 11:09:49
Sounds vaguely like something written by Paul Jennings.
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Fred_H
Since: May, 2013
2013-05-25 17:20:56
Bisected8 is absolutely correct. The story is The Strap-Box Flyer by Paul Jennings. It is included in his short story collection Unreal (1985) and can also be found online in this PDF
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Chabal2
Since: Jan, 2010

A short story,possibly by an Australian author, in which a conman sells a miracle glue that holds everything together... but only for four hours, by which time he is long gone. The conman runs into an inventor with a pair of functioning jetpacks, they both try them on. As they fly higher, the conman asks what he used to keep it together, the inventor replies he used the conman's glue, and the story ends just as the conman's jetpack falls apart midair.