A boy grows up hating his father; hence, when the boy invents a time machine, he uses it to go back to kill his father before his own conception.
When I was sixteen I wished that the dream of my father’s murder had not been a dream at all.

Variants

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  1. “On the Nature of Time” by Barry N. Malzberg and Bill Pronzini, in Amazing, September 1981.
  2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Barry N. Malzberg