1. fiction
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
The news is fiction.
Elementary and primary school children don't yet know good from evil or reality from fiction.
Well that's because in fiction that sort of fine detail gets skipped.
Books such as Harry Potter or The Davinci Code" are fiction.
You hear about a lot of incidents these days that would be hard to dream up. It really backs up the old saying that fact is stranger than fiction.
The trouble with fiction... is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
This science fiction story seems interesting. Will you lend it to me when you have finished reading it?
The fiction reduced girls to tears.
Fiction novels sell better than reality. In fact, reality doesn't sell at all.
Reading science fiction sometimes does much to encourage a scientific view of the universe.
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
literature and stories about imaginary people or events; "What's the best-selling children's fiction title?"
Imogen of the Internet calls people out for openly liking the same fan fiction that she does secretly.