: Re: What is the literary form or style of a story with no heroes? I have a piece of non-fiction to write that I'll be doing by telling a story. It's somewhere between a news report, op-ed,

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This is slice of life, a storytelling technique that depicts a period of time without a conventional narrative or plotline, and potentially without an identifiable protagonist. It's relatively uncommon in fiction, but relatively common in documentaries, although those are often really a series of little mini-stories, each with their own protagonist.
At the cinema, Robert Altman and Richard Linklater are two directors often associated with slice-of-life style fiction movies.
You might call your work "slice-of-life, crime-documentary storytelling."

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