One of my rules is that time travel must involve interaction, which this story—of a literary engineer visiting deaths of his literary heroes—might not have, but I like James Van Pelt enough that I wanted to list the story anyway (and mark my first visit to Daily Science Fiction).
Time travel existed, but I could not interact with the past or the future.

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  1. “The Time Travel Device” by James Van Pelt, Daily Science Fiction, 7 February 2013 [webzine].
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