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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Oh the stories the Looney's Courtesy Shuttle must have. http://twitpic.com/odq01
BaltimoreMD (Baltimore) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:27:36 -0000
Oh the stories the Looney's Courtesy Shuttle must have. http://twitpic.com/odq01
Piping public media’s economy stories http://bit.ly/PeCmq
toddmundt (Todd Mundt) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:06:51 -0000
Piping public media’s economy stories http://bit.ly/PeCmq
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HSBSuzanne (HSBSuzanne aka Anita) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:38:08 -0000
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Now have 2 stories for tomorrow. Yippy skippy. #dailyburdens
soyjournalista (soyjournalista) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:23:26 -0000
Now have 2 stories for tomorrow. Yippy skippy. #dailyburdens
@daryledwards ino i hate bomfire night its just horrible. well its nice sometimes but the stories i hear from what some people do :/
jazfiz (Jasmine Hume) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:00:02 -0000
@daryledwards ino i hate bomfire night its just horrible. well its nice sometimes but the stories i hear from what some people do :/
Reimagining how to tell great stories in digital media, not focusing on clicks and banner ads, is the path to back to glory for journalism
jamesrgaines (Jim Gaines) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:57:57 -0000
Reimagining how to tell great stories in digital media, not focusing on clicks and banner ads, is the path to back to glory for journalism

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