the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > contrive, devise, or invent [verb (transitive)] > a story, etc. (3)
transitive. To say or talk about fictitiously; to relate as in a fable, fiction, or myth; to fabricate, invent (an incident, a personage, story…
transitive. With an immaterial object. To devise, invent, fabricate (a rule, story, theory, etc.); to contrive (a plot, etc.); to put together…
To concoct, compose (a story); also absol.