"plain story" is correct and can be used in written English.
For example, you could say "She spun a plain story about her time abroad".
Fanny Kemble told a plain story about a woman without the usual attractions, entranced by a man who wanted her money.
However, in a closing salvo that includes "Back in the Night", Johnson tells the plain story of a man waiting for his baby at the station with essential art.
He passed the time reading "Outline of Science, a Plain Story Simply Told", published fifteen years ago by Putnam's and edited by J. Arthur Thomson, Regius Professor of Natural History at University of Aberdeen.
"Most ethnic minority writers limit themselves to plain stories about their people, or their past," explains the Beijing-based translator Eric Abrahamsen.
In terms of plain narrative, the Nativity story is hard to beat.
The recipient is to Philip Reeve for A Darkling Plain, fourth story of his Hungry Cities series.
The recipient is Philip Reeve for A Darkling Plain, fourth story of his Hungry Cities series.
When reached for comment, Walmart representatives referred The Huffington Post to information in the Plain Dealer story.
But I hope not, because the trope of the slow erosion of human rights by a secret (or not-so-secret) controlling minority is good for mechanical changes, but pretty plain for story resolution.
Mr. Gehl's office is on the second floor of the plain, two-story brick building, just off of Main Street in this town of about 28,000 people.
The house, a plain two-story building with gray siding, had suffered moderate damage.
