antistory

[ an-tee-stawr-ee, -stohr-ee, an-tahy- ]

/ ˈæn tiˌstɔr i, -ˌstoʊr i, ˈæn taɪ- /

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noun, plural an·ti·sto·ries.

a narrative of short-story length that makes no effort to follow a plot and ignores structural conventions, character motivations, and the like.

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Origin of antistory

anti- + story¹

How to use antistory in a sentence

Before anti-vaxxers, there were anti-fluoriders: a group who spread fear about the anti-tooth decay agent added to drinking water.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
The story of fluoridation reads like a postmodern fable, and the moral is clear: a scientific discovery might seem like a boon.
Anti-Fluoriders Are The OG Anti-Vaxxers|Michael Schulson|July 27, 2016|DAILY BEAST
But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.
‘Black Dynamite’ Presents Police Brutality: The Musical|Stereo Williams|January 9, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Whatever the FBI says, the truthers will create alternative hypotheses that try to challenge the ‘official story.’
Was Sony Hit With a Second Hack?|Shane Harris|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST

A few years back, designer John Galliano was fined by the government for sharing just such anti-semitic sentiments in public.
Politicians Only Love Journalists When They're Dead|Luke O’Neil|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST
Nothing but an extreme love of truth could have hindered me from concealing this part of my story.
Gulliver's Travels|Jonathan Swift
To give him a party name, he became an anti-clerical, strictly in a political and lawful sense.
The Philippine Islands|John Foreman
A few moments afterward he was seen dragging his own trunk ashore, while Mr. Hitchcock finished his story on the boiler deck.
The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun;|Various
Obviously a tremendous question arises here as to how a story should be found in Genesis xiv.
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
Through the beautiful, windy autumn days, he labored at his difficult task, the task of telling a story.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux