The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Story-writer \Sto"ry-writ`er\, n.
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines.
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2. An historian; a chronicler. [Obs.] "Rathums, the
story-writer." --1 Esdr. ii. 17.
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