Mundane Situations with Extraordinary Complications Writing Prompts

Your boss discovered that you are a demon. Now you can no longer skip work because he could just draw a pentagram in blood and summon your ass to the office, then bind it to the desk for the next 10 hours. It was truly Hell.

A man orders a "cheese pizza with no crust" from a local pizza delivery joint as a joke. Unbeknownst to him, that pizza joint is a drug front and he just placed an order for a kilo of cocaine.

"No person shall be executed without their last meal made to their liking." The prisoners know this and make insane requests. You, as the chef for death row, somehow procure the otherworldly ingredients for their meals.

Because of their immortality, vampires pick up really strange hobbies. You've met a vampire that's been making a stop-motion movie using bonsai trees since the 70's, and another that's been helping a now massive lobster out of its shell for the past 850 years.

You're an actor famous for playing a god on stage. That god is now at your front door asking if you could cover for them while they go on holiday.

"Attention Employees: Management at Grocery-Love will no longer be accepting 'rivers of lava', 'hordes of demons', or 'confronted by a Horseman' as a late excuse. We're all living through the apocalypse and have to think of the team first."

Instead of being a super villain like your parents, you ended up joining a company. Now your wildly successful and quite frankly much more closer to world domination than your parents. Your parents can't handle it.

Due to a pact between your family and an immortal businessman, the man keeps your family wealthy throughout the generations in exchange of safeguarding his immortal pet snail from escaping. You have just inherited the sole responsibility of being its guardian for the rest of your life.

Your roommate is so bad at pretending to be a human, you've started to just automatically back him up in public. Tonight he tells you how nice it is to know the only other alien in the city, and you have to break the bad news

You're Stacy. Your parents divorced after your mom got together with your crush and your best friend got together with your dad. Your ex-boyfriend dumped you for your brother. You are very worried about bringing your new significant other to Thanksgiving dinner.

Most vampires spend their immortality spoiling themselves and living lavishly. Instead, you've been working the night shift at a Waffle House for 70+ years with no intention of leaving. One of your coworkers asks why.

Your next door neighbor is convinced you're a vampire. You're not. You're just a night guard who is allergic to garlic and gets sunburns very easily. Today, your neighbor invited you over.

The witch begs your forgiveness for cursing you as a baby; she was young and hot-headed, and would you like her to undo the curse? You aren't sure what to say as this is the first you've heard about any of this.

You own a construction company that especiallise on supervillians hideouts, you make tones of money and usually work in paradise islands, but dealing with your clients and keeping their ideas within OSHA standards is not an easy job

Your son is extremely friendly, and he’s befriended a man he encounters on his walk to school every week. Well, it turns out that this man is the head of a mafia crime family, and now he’s turned up at your front door, backed up by two of his ‘friends’, requesting to be your son’s godfather.

"Your total will be...wait this can't be right." The cashier turned around and called the manager over. The manager then quickly shooed the employee away as they took over at the register. "I'm sorry for the delay, we haven't had one of your kind in awhile, your total comes to 3 souls."

Nobody could ever call you observant — You’ve been a regular at your favorite bakery for months now, blissfully unaware that it is a shockingly obvious front for a criminal enterprise.

An ancient vampire has Turned you. As you are coming to terms with your new reality, they explain that they did it because want their crypt to have internet access and wifi.

You're delivering pizza to a man that always asks you to drive a very specific route, involving circling roundabouts 3 times and other odd time wasting directions. He always leaves a great tip but tonight you don't have time so take a more direct route and find something else answering the door

You're a night guard in a restaurant with animatronic robots. It's actually pretty sweet. They just walk around and maintain the place and don't bother with you at all. All you need to do is keep them out of the kitchen so they don't start making stuff.

Four roommates. Three are aliens who took human form to learn about human culture. All three are from different plants and think the others are humans. The one human knows this and is trying to hold it together, but loves playing into their gullibility.

You wake up as your 5yr old self. Everything around you is as it was when you were 5, but you have all your knowledge of the next 15-75 years. It is your "first" day at school, and you must convince everyone, for the next 15-75 years, you really are 5...

You are a werehuman. But you are not a wolf that turn into a human on full moon. You are a regular human who, on a full moon, turns into a way stronger, very angry and hyper-aggressive version of yourself. It is even harder to explain than being a werewolf.

"I spent three months meditating in the woods before i got my Druidic abilities," "oh, i was just watering my plants one day and one of them told me my hat was stupid"

Dragons do not build nests. Instead, they sneak their eggs into other unsuspecting species and let them raise their young instead. And this "chicken" that just hatched on your family's farm sure doesn't look like any chicken you've ever seen.

Alarms blare throughout the facility. Screams and gunshots echo through the halls. The rookie scientists around you are in panic. You sip your coffee at the breakroom table in peace, "just another tuesday." You state calmy.

"Listen. Those dishes need to be washed, these lights need to be kept on and these bills gotta be paid. I don't care if I'm the only one able to defeat the big bad guy- I'm not working for free."

You were happy with getting an A+ on your "vampire myths" essay, with a comment about how you did excellent research, but you thought that was the end of it. A few days later, though, you open your door to find a vampire and a vampire hunter on your porch.

A child has brought home a "puppy" and is insisting on keeping it. The "puppy" is most certainly NOT a puppy, but seems pretty content with the situation anyway.

Demons are known for disguising their contracts as seemingly innocent agreements or promises. One day, the girl you made a "pinky promise" with when you were young shows up at your door.