What is another word for "story"?

Roget's Thesaurus (1911) lists these synonyms for "story": abridge, abridgment, abstract, and, bed, board, brevity, brief, briefly, close, coat, come, comes, compact, compendious, compendium, compressed, compression, concise, concisely, conciseness, condense, course, cover, covering, crisp, curt, cut, dess, ellipsis, elliptical, epigrammatic, epitome, escarpment, eschar, exact, few, film, flag, flagstone.