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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email your home birth stories to kaitlinrose@bringbirthhome.com for your home birth story to be featured on www.bringbirthhome.com
BringBirthHome (Bring Birth Home) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 08:22:13 -0000
email your home birth stories to kaitlinrose@bringbirthhome.com for your home birth story to be featured on www.bringbirthhome.com
thinking about why Mary's prayer interupts John & Jesus' birth stories.
PastorJoeHaynes (Joe Haynes) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 05:43:29 -0000
thinking about why Mary's prayer interupts John & Jesus' birth stories.
Oh for fuxakes: @KnittingPattrns is now retweeting my pre-birth stories!
EmmaJaneR (Emma-Jane) Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:26:37 -0000
Oh for fuxakes: @KnittingPattrns is now retweeting my pre-birth stories!
Do negative stories about Birth Mothers affect the way you think about them? Tell me what you think...
bestforyoubook (Kelsey Stewart) Sat, 26 Dec 2009 19:43:35 -0000
Do negative stories about Birth Mothers affect the way you think about them? Tell me what you think...
RT @greenfudge Bison on birth control & wild horses being dragged away: stories of conservation vs. sustainability http://bit.ly/7S9rjj
RosieEmery (Rosie Emery) Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:37:10 -0000
RT @greenfudge Bison on birth control & wild horses being dragged away: stories of conservation vs. sustainability http://bit.ly/7S9rjj
Bison on birth control and wild horses being dragged away – stories of conservation vs. sustainability in America - http://bit.ly/7S9rjj
greenfudge (Priscilla Lorenzo) Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:33:51 -0000
Bison on birth control and wild horses being dragged away – stories of conservation vs. sustainability in America - http://bit.ly/7S9rjj

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