Mundane Situations with Extraordinary Complications Writing Prompts

A stranger hands you the largest emerald you’ve ever seen and asks for some sticks. Jokingly, you say you’ll need 3 of them for 12 sticks. He hands them over.

The tour guide said that the stone in the center of the village could "only be moved by a great demon lord". Every one snapped pictures and moved on. You stopped to tie your shoes and braced yourself against the stone. You stand there in shock as you effortlessly push the giant stone around.

Years ago your work place accepted a prank delivery to an evil villains lair, ever since that day the villian hasn't left you alone, convinced you were secretly a hero, no matter how many times you explain you were just a pizza delivery driver and it was a prank call.

A convention where every cosplayer unexpectedly physically transforms into their character.

Your roommate is a hulking demon, a former warlord with millennia of combat experience, and the picture of menace and brutality. You open the door to find them standing stark naked, their brand new tuxedo held carefully in their claws and a desperate plea for help in their eyes.

Since your phone number is one digit off from the Wizard Tech Support hotline, you get the occasional call. You know nothing of magic, but your computer skills and common sense translate real well.

Everyone knows that the stange person at the end of the block is not human, but no one cares. The reason why is that they are the kind of thing that gives out king sized candy bars on Halloween, cleans of the snow covered sidewalks of the whole block, and are willing to help with anything.

You are an eldritch god living in a mortal body. However, you and a friend got mugged, and now they want to know why your blood is black and how you could just walk off being stabbed in the throat.

You wake up with several messages on your phone, all of them from your friends and family telling you some variation of "TURN ON YOUR TV NOW". On your way to your living room to turn on the TV, you see something out of the window: dozens of camera crews standing outside your home.

The new employee is clearly a mimic attempting to fit in. Everyone is aware of this, but the mimic is just so innocent and precious that they just accept them.

"Honey, you know we dont have a child right?" "Yes i know, but the demon is behaving and has good grades, might as well play along"

During the renovation of your living room you hire cheapest designer avaliable due to lack of funds. But when you come back to twitching raw muscles covering the walls and bloody heart in the chandelier you realise they might have misunderstood the assignment.

You invented a machine. Paper bills get dropped in, seeds dispense from the top. The local crows quickly discovered the wondrous vending machine and youve been getting an easy 500 a week in passive income. The police haven’t caught on yet, but today there was 500k in the machine.

A dog witnesses something that we humans consider perfectly innocuous and normal, but to them is horrifying. Write from the dog's perspective, don't reveal what the normal thing is until the end.

Apparently human blood has about the same amount of protein as the average protein shake. You just met Dracula at the local gym and he. is. absolutely. ripped.

After months, the villain finds the hero, but upon arriving at his home, he discovers the hero in a stained robe, baby food splattered, huge dark circles under his eyes, and a non-stop crying baby. The only thing the hero says is, "My wife left me."

You are a humble farmer when a dragon suddenly appears, he wants you to take his young dragon daughter that is unable to turn fully into a dragon and no longer wants her, before you could respond he fly's away leaving her behind, she then looks at you and ask "Are you my new daddie/mommy?"

As part of a newly established student exchange program between the realms, a dwarf student arrives at a human STEM college. He's about to attend his first computer science class. "This should be easy," he thinks, "how complicated can human technology possibly be?"

You run a quaint deli that's beloved by the Italian mob. The NYPD have also become frequent patrons. Neither want to start a confrontation in your shop.

"This is insane, I'm not paying this. And what is your name!?", the Faye screams at you, tearing up the forms. You pull out a second copy and hand them over. "No one escapes the IRS, not even residents of the Fayewild. Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way.", you say to them.

There is a company run by an ethereal cosmic horror entity that likes to torment it’s mortal employees by asking impossible tasks of them. However, there is one employee that somehow completes every task.

You are a notorious hitman. Seriously one bad mother!@#$er. And this little kid just gave you a big fistful of change to get his bike back from the neighborhood bullies.

It was supposed to be just one time you saw wherewolf pup in the snow you brought him in gave him food took care of him and then get let on his way. but then more monster children ended up on your doorstep you kind of regret it but don’t.

You're an entirely normal human being. You have memories of a childhood and an adult life. You're not a robot. You're not a robot. You're not a robot. You know beyond all doubt you're not a robot. Why have captchas suddenly become completely impossible?

You are a 512 year immortal in a bar, angry because you can’t order a beer. It’s not your fault you took the immortality potion at 12 and have looked the same ever since!

You thought your self as a normal person living a normal life. That was until your house was destroyed during a fight between a superhero and a supervillain. The look of terror in their eyes when they saw you changed that notion.

You don't know what was more frightening, the Humanoid THING with too many teeth and eyes like shadows, or your dad looking up calmly at it and saying "Oh, yeah. I've seen one of these before" in a bored tone.

You unknowingly acquired an ancient artifact that carries a most horrible curse. Well, "most horrible" by ancient standards. By today's standards it is a mild inconvenience at worst.

A pet groomer lands in a fantasy world. Rather than try to be a hero or an adventurer, they open a health spa & salon for beastfolk races.

You are dating your city’s superhero not because you like them but because they publicly asked you out, making you a target for the supervillains and paparazzi.