Once in written form, many stories lose their meaning and become facts.

Later, the media apologized for the news; the woman who fabricated the story lost her job as a journalist the next day.

They were captive, uncounted, beyond any hope of treatment, their stories lost to history.

A story of a man losing his life and then finding a better one.

The story didn't lose any in the telling, I bet, either.

A story 9 paragraphs long will lose three out of 10 readers by the 5th paragraph.

The story loses its emotional effect because we don't get to know these characters as real people.

They won't be able to strike the first blow, and their story will lose its novelty.

The story lost a lot of its luster in black-and-white.

Without that thrill, the story loses its grip on one very quickly.