Big lie
Story
Story noun - A work with imaginary characters and events that is shorter and usually less complex than a novel.
Mutual synonyms
Both terms in one sentence
- It is out of character for Bradbury, but works if you view the big lie of the story as representing the writer's art.
Source: Author Tract - One Big Lie: The author invents one (or, at most, a very few) counterfactual physical laws and writes a story that explores the implications of these principles.
Source: Mohs / One Big Lie -
The protagonist of The Big Lie from Image Comics (a book about the events of 9/11) does this at the start of the story, discovering she has arrived several days earlier than she intended.
Source: Newspaper Dating
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