For example, my most pretentious story is...

A girl contemplates suicide over the death of her cat.

Oh man, even now it makes me laugh that my professor loved that story.

Anyway, I would love to hear yours.
~Sheena
 

I remember once writing a story about dragons, fire, and the dragons themselves stealing fire from somebody. Only I didn't just write it as a story...I tried to write it like it was a chapter in a book in some kind of Bible, like it was a holy legend.

This was a long time ago, and I didn't know way enough to handle doing anything that way...I think I submitted it somewhere, to my great embarrassment now, but my records are so disorganized these days I can't look it up...
 

What made it pretentious is I wrote it as series of newspaper articles and news blubs set in chronological order.

Thought I had something. It became a string of info-dumps and little else.