Everyday Life with a Twist Writing Prompts

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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.

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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.

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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.

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"Oh please daddy please!" My daughter begs. "I promise I will look after them!" I am skeptical, but what the hell. She is almost 6. "An artificial world is a real responsibility, pumpkin. They are sentient. Don't forget to feed them and give them purpose." She cries in glee. I boot the world.

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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.

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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."

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You know your dog is anything but a dog, but you don’t mind since you both agree that it’s better than whatever’s in the basement.

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All of your siblings, papart from you, have attended a prestigious wizarding school. Now, after all these years, they're back in your "regular" world... and don't even know how an oven works.

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You give the weird kid from school a chance, many years later you both are married on the couch watching a news broadcast. The broadcast is about a young boy who vanished with no trace. What struck you as odd was that the boy looks identical to your husband when you met all those years ago.

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As a toy maker in your village, you've never thought about security. On a lark, you created an toy that says "State your business" when someone walks in. One night robbers come in. When prompted, they kick over the anamatronic.While lying on the floor, it says "Ah, so you have chosen death"

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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?"

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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?"

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Years ago you made a wish with a genie that any living Arthropods would be incapable of being within ten feet of you. You've been loving your bug free life but your starting to notice more any more people refusing to get close to you.

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You're secretly a werewolf, with so much control over your were-form you're basically just yourself. You've grown so close to your roommate that you decide it's safe to transform in front of them. You expect shock, horror. Instead, they whip out a fursuit.

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You’re a shopkeeper who sells liquid dreams. People come to your shop for many reasons; self revelation, escapism, to see a gone loved one or for a precious good night sleep. Your shop is located between dimensions so no visitor can come twice. However, recently you’ve seemed to gain a regular.

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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.

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"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.

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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.

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When you were 10, you created a secret phrase with God so you would know how to identify someone as your solemate. Your partner of two years has never said it, but as you finish shopping and start loading your items onto the conveyor belt, a random cashier utters the words to you.

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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.

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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.

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You have a café shop, and you always treat everyone kindly, whether they are heroes or villains. Everything was going well until a young hero decided to read your mind.

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You run a Bakery, just a normal bakery, the only problem is that your customers at midnight to 6AM are mythical creatures who pay with gemstones and ancient gold and silver coins

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When you were little, you formed a symbiotic relationship with an alien larva parasite, who's been your closest companion ever since. Today is your college graduation, and after the ceremony, you hear words from the parasite in your mind: "We need to talk."

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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?

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One day the most popular (and meanest) girl in the school has a complete attitude change and becomes extremely wholesome and friendly. Then you learn she is possessed by a demon. “Is”. Not “was”.

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"Daddy, what if monsters come out of the closet?" "Don't worry sweetie, your Teddy Bear fights them all off when you sleep" "Daddy you're so silly". When she finally goes to sleep, he turns to the bear and salutes it, "Keep up the good fight soldier". The bear salutes back, "Yes Sir!"

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You never had kids. So you're not entirely sure how you wound up with 20+ kids who all consider you their grandparent.

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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!

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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.

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