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A "meta-story" is not a third type of story that you do. A "meta-story" or "meta-narrative" is a story told about a story. Remember One Thousand and One Nights?

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Yeah, that part kind of bugged me too. What is it about a meta-story (by the article's definition) that makes it neither non-fiction or fiction?

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