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You can call the cat a minivan but you still can't drive it to Costco. A story is what a story is. If you create an object that has none of the characteristics of a story, it is not a story. You ...
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You can call the cat a minivan but you still can't drive it to Costco. A story is what a story is. If you create an object that has none of the characteristics of a story, it is not a story. You might consider it a literary work, given that it is a work made of words, but being a literary work does not make it a story. You can write what you like. Readers can read what they like. A story is still a story and a literary work without a plot is not a story.