A story is a text describing a sequence of events:

• A narrative, more specifically:
  • A piece of literature (also known as a tale):
    • Novel or specifically, an epistolary novel
    • Short story or a novella
    • Frame tale, a narrative technique
    • Fable, fairy tale or tall tale
    • Play, usually consisting chiefly of dialog between characters
    • Anecdote, a brief tale narrating an interesting or amusing biographical incident
  • Bedtime story, an entertaining or instructive, soporific, and often extemporaneous tale for a child
  • Urban legend, sometimes called Whale Tumour Story (WTS) in the UK
• Plot, the storyline holding a narrative together (also in the context of movies)
• An essay or news article, in journalism slang
• Organization story, in organization studies, is fragmented, collectively enacted, and co-constructed
• User story is a way of illustrating software requirements, often used in extreme programming
• A depiction of history
• Soap opera television programs, in older American slang, were called “story” (eg., “I’ll talk to you later, Billybob; my stories are on.”)

Other uses

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• A floor of a building is also called a story or storey
• Stories (band), an American rock group formed by Ian Lloyd and Michael Brown of The Left Banke

People:

• Joseph Story, an American jurist

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@tinabeans If you could see this movie on a 5 story tall screen you would too.
coldsoup753 (coldsoup753) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:36:43 -0000
@tinabeans If you could see this movie on a 5 story tall screen you would too.
@caithream HOLY CRAP in the ONTD post you linked to the fgirl who is afraid of tall people told the story!!! @idril_telrunya
laroux74 (larissa) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:10:45 -0000
@caithream HOLY CRAP in the ONTD post you linked to the fgirl who is afraid of tall people told the story!!! @idril_telrunya
whatever happened to the drunk, tall, doofy, linky,ball playin, baby making, bring wifey to the club, story telling ass nigga !?
iiLivePiiNk (Krystal) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 03:26:03 -0000
whatever happened to the drunk, tall, doofy, linky,ball playin, baby making, bring wifey to the club, story telling ass nigga !?
Flash: "News Story: No tall tale: Dubai to open world’s highest tower" http://tinyurl.com/yjy6jft
NDNews0verviews (ND News) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 02:57:43 -0000
Flash: "News Story: No tall tale: Dubai to open world’s highest tower" http://tinyurl.com/yjy6jft
So my mini Avatar review. Amazing visuals, but sadly lacking in any real story. Also is it wrong of me 2 fancy a 9ft tall blue alien chick?
MikeyPalmer (Michael Palmer) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 21:06:23 -0000
So my mini Avatar review. Amazing visuals, but sadly lacking in any real story. Also is it wrong of me 2 fancy a 9ft tall blue alien chick?
Gggrrrr.. Mr. Tall.. Why didn't u call me? I want to share some story with u.. :( :( http://myloc.me/2Ak4F
ambuzzy (Ambaria Prakoso) Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:41:58 -0000
Gggrrrr.. Mr. Tall.. Why didn't u call me? I want to share some story with u.. :( :( http://myloc.me/2Ak4F

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