This is my 2nd entry in the #fiftywords story challenge by @miniature-tiger. The current theme is "time". You can read my first story here
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The story is exactly 50 words long.
The teacher humiliated Jim in front of the class. Angry, Jim spent years inventing a time machine. Much later, after he went back in time and killed the teacher, his new self had no motivation to invent a time machine and Jim melted into a gooey puddle of paradoxical logic.
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I took the picture of the puddle about 30 minutes ago. Doctored it using phone editor and PicSee