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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Premier acknowledges its own success stories with individual and team Values awards. It is always amazing to hear the stories. #valuesconf
tully3000 (Becca Price) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:04:24 -0000
Premier acknowledges its own success stories with individual and team Values awards. It is always amazing to hear the stories. #valuesconf
E.A. Poe was one weird, screwed-up individual and reading his stories at night is such an ungood idea. >_< "The Premature Burial" <~ scary!
SunnyAnni_84 (Diana) Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:41:37 -0000
E.A. Poe was one weird, screwed-up individual and reading his stories at night is such an ungood idea. >_< "The Premature Burial" <~ scary!
Formal apology to my colleague @CorbinHiar, an individual I fully trust, in part bc he occasionally RTs my stories. & is an awesome person.
mariancw (Marian Wang) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:55:53 -0000
Formal apology to my colleague @CorbinHiar, an individual I fully trust, in part bc he occasionally RTs my stories. & is an awesome person.
why would anyone listen to wolf blitzer of cnn, he is a one side individual always airing stories against the republican party
steel7728 (Jerry Tarala) Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:07:36 -0000
why would anyone listen to wolf blitzer of cnn, he is a one side individual always airing stories against the republican party
@jdfreivald Appreciate how you're tweeting the individual stories. Reminds me to go read when I don't have time for the whole issue at once!
jhtatroe (Jennifer Tatroe) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:01:41 -0000
@jdfreivald Appreciate how you're tweeting the individual stories. Reminds me to go read when I don't have time for the whole issue at once!
@JTigerclaw write Bantams history, make little side stories with individual characters...I feel like I put in more than he did. But,
KewtKittyKat (Katalina) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:57:38 -0000
@JTigerclaw write Bantams history, make little side stories with individual characters...I feel like I put in more than he did. But,

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