Rabbit shot with rook appearing in stories (6)
I believe the answer is:
angora
'rabbit' is the definition.
(Angora is an example)
'shot with rook appearing in stories' is the wordplay.
'shot' becomes 'go' (both can mean an attempt).
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'rook' becomes 'R' (chess abbreviation).
'appearing in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'stories' becomes 'ana' (archaic term for anecdotes or gossip).
'go'+'r'='gor'
'gor' going inside 'ana' is 'ANGORA'.
(Other definitions for angora that I've seen before include "Name of goat at 12 Across" , "Cloth from the soft hair of a goat" , "Fabric made from goat-hair from Aragon" , "Breed of goat with silky hair" , "Breed of rabbit or cat, the former name for the Turkish capital" .)