I always liked Brian Moriarty's definition of story: "a particular causally related sequence of events".
Which certainly does allow for a conflict free story. The important thing is that a story has events which are causally related. Otherwise it really is just a list of unconnected statements.
Which certainly does allow for a conflict free story. The important thing is that a story has events which are causally related. Otherwise it really is just a list of unconnected statements.