clothesline

best seller book drama fable fantasy imagination legend myth narrative novel tale yarn

anecdote concoction crock fabrication falsehood fancy fib hooey improvisation invention lie misrepresentation potboiler prevarication romance smoke untruth whopper

cliff-hanger figment of imagination fish story storytelling tall story terminological inexactitude work of imagination

nonfiction reality truth

buzz chatter chitchat conversation hearsay news scandal slander tale

account babble blather blether calumny chronicle cry defamation earful grapevine injury meddling prate prattle report scuttlebutt story talk wire

back-fence talk dirty laundry dirty linen dirty wash idle talk malicious talk small talk whispering campaign

quiet silence

fact

gossip

comment cry grapevine leak noise report rumble rumor scandal scuttlebutt talk

mere talk talk of the town word of mouth

quiet silence

evidence proof reality testimony truth

liner

line shot rope

fiction rumor yarn

canard chestnut defamation detraction exaggeration fabrication falsehood falsity fib lie misrepresentation prevarication rigmarole scandal slander spiel untruth

cock-and-bull story tall story untruism

truth

honesty praise

nonfiction

account babble back-fence talk blather blether buzz calumny chatter chitchat chronicle conversation cry defamation dirty laundry dirty linen dirty wash earful gossipry grapevine hearsay idle talk injury malicious talk meddling news prate prattle report rumor scandal scuttlebutt slander small talk story tale talk tattle tittle-tattle whispering campaign wire word