Jokes are stories. Telling someone about your day is a story. Recalling the details of a traffic accident is a story.
Evidence suggests even prehistoric people told stories.
There seems to be a neverending need for people to exchange stories, to define our world and our selves with narrative. I wonder sometimes whether the real difference between human beings and other animals is the practice of telling stories. Whatever your definition of a story, the one certain thing is that stories seem to be a vital part of what it means to be a human being. So there are stories all around us and as far back as the beginning of recorded history, and surely long before that. Maybe that's why some people think writing is a natural, and not a learned, ability.