The phrase "a confusing story" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a narrative that is difficult to understand or follow due to its complexity or lack of clarity.
Example: "The novel was intriguing, but ultimately, it turned out to be a confusing story that left many readers puzzled."
Alternatives: "a perplexing tale" or "an unclear narrative".
This is the central failing of Sylvia: you can't make a confusing story more lucid if you yourself are still confused.
In the tight 2004 campaign, the polls that asked Americans which candidate they supported — all the way up to the exit polls — told a confusing story about whether President George W. Bush or Senator John Kerry would win.
Add a confusing story that commits several major crimes against flashbacks and you've got something terminally underwhelming, although the clipped noir idiom does mask what might otherwise simply look like wooden acting.
Yet Armstrong and Johan Bruyneel (director of U.S. Postal) insisted with straight faces that it wasn't used for doping; instead, they offered a confusing story in which they claimed it was used to treat road rash and also a team mechanic's diabetes.
The blowup included a plan to reach out to press that competes with TechCrunch with a confusing story that suggested that we were mostly to blame.
It's a confusing story and one at odds with the all but official Polish mania for startups that culminated in the official announcement that the conservative Polish government created a 630 million euro fund to support the local ecosystem.
One of the most-talked-about novels of the year was Helene Hegemann's Axolotl Roadkill, a succès de scandale that told a confused and confusing story of anomie and hopelessness in contemporary Berlin.
Publishers Weekly, while praising the "frightening" illustrations, noted that they accompanied "a pointless and confusing story"; a librarian reviewer wrote, "It is not a book to be left where a sensitive child may come upon it at twilight".
In an equally confusing story, Iranian nuclear scientist Shahram Amiri surfaced in the United States in summer 2009 but subsequently returned to Iran, claiming he had been kidnapped by the CIA.
"Terror in Mumbai" is what's known as a tick-tock, untangling a large and confusing story and laying it out in chronological order, in this case trying to make sense of the nonsensical.
Publishers Weekly called it "a pointless and confusing story," while another reviewer wrote, "It is not a book to be left where a sensitive child may come upon it at twilight".
