afterstory

English

Alternative forms

• after-story, after story

Etymology

From after- +‎ story.

Noun

afterstory (plural afterstories)

1. A story told after the fact; an account of events which come after a story
   • 2008, Barry Keith Grant, American Cinema of the 1960s:

     Wilder's cynicism is most evident in his cop-out, boy-gets-girl ending, which seems quite capable of producing an afterstory identical to the film we have just seen.

   • 2010, Joshua Porter, Designing for the Social Web, eBook:

     The afterstory might be as telling as the uprising. Even though hundreds of thousands of people joined the protest group, only a small percentage of Facebook members ever changed their privacy settings!

   • 2014, Marie-Laure Ryan, Jan-Noël Thon, Storyworlds Across Media:

     The use of an afterstory is rarer, but it oc- curs when a first-person narrator looks at the past from the point of view of the present, stressing the distinction between his or her past and present self: [...]

See also

• aftertale
• afterword