Tyler Cowen's idea of a story

Here are some examples of "stories" that Tyler Cowen gives us in his lecture. (This may, in fact, be all the examples he gives us but I want to allow for the possibility that I might have missed some.)

1. A stranger came to town
2. Monster
3. Rags to riches
4. Quest
5. Voyage and return
6. Comedy
7. Tragedy
8. Rebirth
9. Journey
10. Battle
11. The Seasons
12. A novel
13. A race
14. A live performance like a play
15. A carousel
16. We have to get tough
17. It's a conspiracy
18. The story of George Washington and the cherry tree
19. The story of Paul Revere
20. Good versus Evil
21. My job is really important, what I am doing is really important
22. I am one of the good guys and we are fighting the ideas of the bad guys
23. Buy this car and you will have beautiful romantic partners and a fascinating life
24. You don't need a car as nice as your income would indicate. What you usually do is copy your friends. That is a good heuristic for a lot of things so just buy a Toyota. (He might want to revise that now.)
    
25. Rebirth
26. Triumph
27. Struggle
    

Now I have a very simple question: Are those stories? It seems to me that it is self-evident that in one sense they they are not. Wittgenstein would say to begin a discussion like this we have to remind ourselves about the different ways we use the word "story". There are contexts in which at least some of the above would be accepted as examples of a story. There are other contexts where they would not.

Here is what I mean. Little Red Riding Hood is a story. But if your daughter asks you to tell her a bedtime story, it would not do to walk into her room, sit down and say the words "Little Red Riding Hood" and then leave. She'd object, and she'd be right, that that wasn't a story at all. Not one of Tyler Cowen's examples above passes the bedtime-story test of stories.