Last night I stayed up until two because that science-fictioner had a twist I didn't see coming.

The anthology featured ten flash fictions that captured entire lives in a paragraph.

The workshop encouraged writers to experiment with micro-fictions that captured whole lives in a sentence.

As the old proverb goes, truth is stranger than fiction, and the strange chain of events that unfolded last week proved it beyond doubt.

After reading the police report, even the veteran investigator admitted that fact is stranger than fiction.

She chose to fictionalise her grandmother's life into a novel, altering names and events for dramatic effect.

The documentary fictionalises certain events to enhance the narrative.

The author fictionalised her grandmother's life to protect the family's privacy.

The author was fictionalising his grandmother's life to create a more compelling narrative.

The fictionalists debated whether characters in historical novels could be said to 'exist' in any meaningful sense.