fiction (n.)
- allegory
- anecdote
- apologue
- apparition
- article
- autograph
- brainchild
- bubble
- canard
- chimera
- composition
- concoction
- copy
- delirium
- document
- draft
- engrossment
- essay
- exaggeration
- extravaganza
- fable
- fabrication
- falsehood
- falsity
- fancy
- fantasy
- farrago
- fib
- figment
- flam
- flimflam
- flimsy
- folktale
- forgery
- gest
- half-truth
- hallucination
- holograph
- illusion
- imagery
- imagination
- invention
- legend
- letter
- lie
- literature
- lucubration
- maggot
- make-believe
- manuscript
- matter
- mendacity
- misrepresentation
- mystery
- myth
- mythology
- narrative
- nonfiction
- opus
- original
- paper
- parable
- parchment
- phantasm
- phantom
- piece
- play
- poem
- prevarication
- printout
- production
- romance
- screed
- scrip
- script
- scroll
- shocker
- story
- tale
- taradiddle
- thriller
- transcript
- transcription
- trip
- typescript
- untruth
- vapor
- version
- vision
- whim
- whimsy
- whodunit
- work
- writing
- yarn
And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest.
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.
Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
'T is strange, but true; for truth is always strange,—
Stranger than fiction.
