Events told so that they mean something to whoever hears them. A story is a shape laid over what happened.
Greek ἱστορία (historia, inquiry, knowledge gained by inquiry), via Latin historia and Old French estorie; the word for a factual record and the word for a telling shaped for meaning were never fully separated.
Events told so that they mean something to whoever hears them. A shape laid deliberately over what happened, and the shape is where the meaning lives.