Everyday Life with a Twist Writing Prompts

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.

Your dad had this vintage bottle of honey, dated thousands of years. He always told you to save it for a special occasion. Trapped in a bunker about to die, you think it's the right time.

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.

Some immortals use their unnaturally long lifespans to pursue greatness, leave massive legacies, and substitute a natural death with a glorious one. Not you. All you've ever wanted is this cozy little existence.

You recently moved to the countryside. Your child was playing in the woods, and came back with a large green egg you thought was plastic, so you agreed they could keep it if no one claimed it. Your kid said it was a gift. You thought nothing of it. Then the egg hatched.

Bartender "listen, you can't just walk in here with a real sword. Give me one good reason to carry something like that around in this day and age." "Mimics!". I laughed, the bartender laughed, the table laughed.

Your partner is a werewolf. You found this out by coming home to a large, rather friendly wolf.

You're about to go to bed, when you find a woman getting food out of your refrigerator. It turns out, that "cat" you picked up outside the grocery store, wasn't a cat at all.

You got a magic rock as a kid that was meant to teach you the "magic words" of please and thank you by reminding you whenever it's appropriate. Now though it's begun to recommend whole paragraphs whenever you're in a sticky situation. The best part is following it's advice always works out best

You wake up one morning to a golden orb floating above your head. 'Take, or double it and give it to the next person' it says. You think for a moment. 'Take'. You are the first person to say this in a thousand years.

Your best friend is known for two things being flat-chested and always wearing the same hoodie, but now that you think about it the fact that the design says 'Hoodie of holding" makes you a bit suspicious...

My new partner at work is the worst! They won't enter buildings without invitation, says they've got a sunlight allergy so I have to work night shifts, and if you drop anything they sit there and count it impulsively. It's the worst!

After enough break ins and bar fights a bartender has learned that it is actually a lot cheaper to just get mimics to be his tables than to replace them constantly. They also make for one hell of a security

Ok, that's it. You don't care what happens anymore. Enough is enough. You take your standard issue time rewinder and set it back 20 mins just so you can win an argument with your wife.

"Look, I can't be the chosen one! I'm a single parent! I've got two kids that need me, I can't be off saving the world, I'm barely making ends meet as it is! Give me ONE reason I should even consider this!" "... free childcare while you're gone?" "... Keep talking."

For the longest, you could see faeries, vampires, gods, ghosts, and other entities of the hidden world. However, you pretended not to see them because you just wanted to live a normal life. That was until they began noticing you.

Due to a curse placed upon your bloodline, you're invisible. You've been married to your blind wife for 25 years and she's just gotten surgery to recover her vision

You are born with a large birthmark on the back of your hand that looks like an arrow. On your 18th birthday you notice that it starts pointing in one direction no matter which way you're facing. You decide to start walking in that direction.

Four roommates are extraterrestrials who have taken human form in the hopes of learning about Earth’s culture. Unfortunately, each alien is from a different planet and believes the other three are normal humans.

In a world where the consequences of murdering someone is them coming back the next day completely fine, you accidentally shot your best friend with a gun. The next day, you and your friend have an awkward conversation in an elevator.

You gave the last of your food to a poorly disguised mimic, but now it wont leave you alone. It's even turning itself into various items to help you.

You never knew your birth parents, growing up across the country in orphanages. While alone you learned to cook and shared your meals across the world, eventually owning your own business. One day you suddenly find out what your parents were. They were Fae… you’ve fed thousands Fae Food.

When you were a child, you accidentally wrote a letter to Satan instead of Santa. Now, every year for christmas you get presents from the lord of hell himself.

Vampires are real and have lived publicly in society for decades, but they're still played by humans in movies because real vampires don't show up on camera. A director who prides himself on authenticity has a vampire on set to make sure the actors are portraying vampires correctly.

You believe in lucky pennies. When you find one the wrong side down, you flip it so the next person can get the luck. One day you hear an annoyed voice telling you to knock it off.

You have just been hired as the janitor at an academy of magic. This is of course the most prestigious role in the entire academy. As you are required to have extensive knowledge on everything magical in order to handle any contaminants, mutants, demons, etc.

Everyday you wake up in the ideal clothing for the day. Today you woke up in q Hazmat Suit.

You're an ageless being that has been alive for millennia, however your eternal youth has never been a secret. You're known around the world for it. You're not rich, a ruler, hunted by the government, or special in any other way. You're just a worldly curiosity, a minor celebrity at best.