["Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 1, May 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nFormatted stories rely on spatiotemporal cues to evoke recognizability through linearity, which prescribes a particular template for meaning‐making. This article examines stories narrated by ex‐gay members of a Christian organization in Singapore and considers how chronotopes within the stories are ordered to regiment ways of feeling for viewers. By ordering these experiences differently, affective flows between each chronotope become altered and the uptake of meaning is impacted. Drawing on Bakhtinian thought and linguistic anthropological ideas in narratives, I suggest that the structuring of recognizable stories is an exercise in narrative formatting: the discursive practice of ordering and presenting experience as morally and normatively desirable.\n\n程式化的故事依赖时空线索，通过线性叙事来唤起可识别性，这为意义建构规定了一种特定模板。本文检视了新加坡某基督教组织前同性恋成员所讲述的故事，并探讨了故事中的时空体如何被排序，以规训观众的感受方式。通过以不同方式编排这些经历，每个时空体之间的情感流动被改变，从而影响了意义的接收。借鉴巴赫金的思想与语言人类学关于叙事的观点，本文提出，构建可识别的故事是一种叙事格式化的实践:即一种将经验排序并呈现为在道德和规范上合乎期望的话语实践。\n"]