Everyday Life with a Twist Writing Prompts

Your village has exactly 92 people living in it, but only 91 are human. The last one is an elf and - despite being older than the village itself - a child at that. You're her 53rd adoptive parent.

You always got strange looks whenever you fed the neighborhood ravens. "I give them food, they give me company," you'd say. One day, a raven excitedly comes up to you and whispers, "A neighbor plots against you, my lord."

You never really believed your grandmother's stories about the little people who lived in her home. After she passed and left it to you, you said, "Okay, Little People! I'm sorry, but the economy sucks, so I'm going to have start charging rent." In the morning, you find a small pile of gold.

"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.

Thirty years ago, you made a wish upon a star, hoping against hope for it to come true. What you didn't know was the star you wished on was fifteen light years from Earth.

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.

"This... is your treasure hoard, Dragon?" "Yes. Nobody pays with gold and jewels anymore, it's all paper money or stocks and bonds. I miss being able to lay down in a pile of loot, but I am forced to adapt to modern times."

The protagonist picks up a cursed sword, which simply convinces them to pick up an expensive and time-consuming hobby. This hobby drains their time, energy, and wealth more efficiently than any cursed item.

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.

As a renown astronomer you’ve known there are intelligent extraterrestrial life forms for years, it wasn’t that difficult to find, nor was it for their searches to find us. However, you’ve realized that both societies are not ready to interact. That doesn’t stop you guys from being pan pals.

500 years ago, you were resurrected as the strongest lich in history and no hero has ever managed to best you. Now, you run the entire IT department of a large company with your undead army, and you’re desperately trying to explain to your boss why all of IT can’t make it to the company BBQ.

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.

A demon has tried to posess you, however it turn out to be weaker than expected. It only manages to take controll a couple of times a day to make a single movement or say a single word. You now have to live with a demonic version of tourettes that's perfectly timed to ruin your day.

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.

You are an instructor at a magical academy, but you are no wizard, warlock, sorcerer, or witch. No, you aren't magical at all, but that doesn't mean your classes are easy.

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

A garden shop sometimes gifts mysterious tree sapplings to customers, but they always wither away. You receive one and plant it...and it ends up flourishing.

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.

You work at a retirement home for superheroes who've gotten too infirm and senile to continue their work. The hardest part of the job is keeping them here, instead of gallivanting off on a foolhardy quest to relive their glory days.

When you were a young teen you were teleported to a magical world and had an adventure over the summer before returning home. 20 years later the crystal necklace you used for communication during your adventure beings making noise for the first time since you left the magical world.

You have Vampiric Blood running through your veins. However, that blood comes from quite a few generations back, so all it really means is that you like eating meat, can't swim, get mildly annoyed by religious architecture, and get sunburned really easily.

You hear a soft squeaking coming from a nearby tree stump. When you lean down to take a peek, you find a bat with a torn wing. You take it home, since there are no vets for miles around. Little do you know that it is a vampire bat who is struggling to turn into his human form.

"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

Winston Churchill once said, “Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” A man with a dog, a cat, and a pig leaves for work, and his three pets talk about him while he’s gone.