afterstory

plural afterstories · alternative after-story · alternative after story

1. A story told after the fact; an account of events which come after a story

   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.

   2008, Barry Keith Grant, American Cinema of the 1960s

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   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!

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

   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: [...]

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