What makes a story fiction or nonfiction?
Does the difference have something to do with the characters? If they are real people with real names who have existed at some point in time, is it nonfiction? Not necessarily, or every story labeled historical fiction would deserve a different title.
Then what is it that makes a story “true” and not a work of fi…
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