An anecdote is a short, often humorous story. The story is usually from the teller’s experience as a story of fact, not fiction.
How can I have an anecdote in a work of fiction? Good question:
“There was a mudslide here. El has mercifully buried all the animals in a mudslide. I suppose these animals will become a permanent record and testimony to the worldwide Mabbul. After all, you cannot have fossils unless things are buried quickly, and then only if there is no bacteria left to consume them and nothing left to scatter their bones.
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