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n. one who narrates, tells a story, relates events

"The story being critiqued actually did have some tension, because if the rational editor part of my reading brain was thinking "the narrator isn't going to get killed" the rest of it was more concerned with the question of whether or not said gun had recently been fired at someone: specifically the narrator's love interest and daughter of the man holding the gun on the narrater."

narration    narrative   

narrate    narrated    narrates    narrator   

story-teller    narrator