unstory

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ story.

Noun

unstory (plural unstories)

1. a story which lacks the expected characteristics found in a normal story

   Synonym: anti-story

2. a story which is unnoteworthy or unnewsworthy; nonstory
   • 2010, Gregory Jusdanis, Fiction Agonistes:

     This margin between the real and invented is always arbitrary and blurry. But Welty suggests that it will always be here and that the task of literature is to remind us of it. We need the incredible just as we need the opportunities to differentiate between a story and an unstory.