15 Urban Fantasy Story Prompts

Everyone loves a good blend of fantasy and modern day life, here is a list of 15 prompts to get your creative juices flowing.

1. The pollution in your hero’s city is getting really bad and there starts to be reports of creatures in the smog that are not happy with the factories. Your hero goes to investigate.
2. An elf has been friends with a human for their entire life and goes to a nursing home to visit them for one last time. Describe their conversation and how the elf feels watching the humans life pass by so quickly.
3. A Times Magazine interview with a witch on her complaints about declining birth rates and the harm to the “cursing newborns” industry.
4. Your hero works for the IRS and has to go investigate a wizard in regards to back-taxes. Too bad they have an enchanted house your hero has to work their way through in order to talk to the owner.
5. A vampire works as a Walmart door-greeter during the night time hours and a vampire hunter tries to get them alone in order to vanquish them- just as the other employees defend their coworker.
6. A sphinx hosts a late night game show that is losing ratings. She starts to use real riddles with real consequences as a result. Your hero is a contestant where the stakes have become much higher.
7. A werewolf becomes an astronaut and goes to the moon for the sake of science in order to see if they will become a wolf or a man when they reach the surface.