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Creature Dialectic

A non-typical vampire, werewolf, human story divided into multiple stages of history with a new protagonist and villain for each epoch. 

Each age has a dominant group with its own internal and (mostly) external conflicts. These conflicts drive society forward, for better or worse, depending on who you ask. 

Creature Dialectic starts with the story of a werewolf boy who is hunted by the humans for attacking their livestock. He stumbles upon a cave which leads to a strange underground chamber. Unbeknownst to him, it's the hibernation lair of an earlier advanced civilization whose society went into decline following a worldwide cataclysm - a cataclysm of ecological collapse they caused themselves after over-consuming the planet's blood supply from various human ancestor species. 

Trading in Despair

Lawson Creed, a poor boy who lives in an abusive trailer park household in America's rust-belt.

Since he hasn't discovered opiates yet, he copes with his hardships by dissociating with reality. The only time he's happy is when he is with an alien creature he believes is nothing but a figment of his imagination; except it's very much real, just physically located in a parallel universe.

Still, Lawson and this creature can somehow connect psychologically and trick their brains into experiencing each other's existence through at least five senses. 

In one timeline of the story, Lawson succumbs to the temptation of pure bliss when he is with the creature and ends up destitute and homeless. In the other, he resists this temptation and leads a difficult life but ultimately, it becomes a life very much worth living.

The Semispiral

On a post-apocalyptic Earth, Lenny witnesses the arrival of visitors from another planet.

Lenny looks like an android, but like his fellow villagers, there is a deeper aspect to his being. The aliens are treated hospitably enough by the villagers but are forbidden from entering the secret structure. This doesn't sit well with the aliens who are on a mission to find something of the utmost importance to their species. 

Relations soon sour and before long, the alien spaceship's self-destruct sequence is activated. This presents the characters with a difficult choice - run and try to find shelter somewhere out in the nuclear wasteland or have one person fly the ship somewhere in in the middle of empty space, thereby sparing the Earth-people, stranding the aliens and killing themself.

Rest In PCs

Dave is a bloated, middle-aged billionaire with a family who only loves him for his money. He funds a highly unsafe, experimental project that allows a person's mind to be saved, uploaded or transferred into another body, a natural human one or that of an android. The initial stage of the project was successfully completed by allowing a human mind to temporarily enter a virtual game-like world and interact with one main character and several NPCs.

Due to time and budget constraints and a cavalier attitude towards life, however, Dave orders the hastening of the project and the commencement of human trials. Rather than source volunteers and face more crippling lawsuits, he volunteers himself. As expected, he dies in the process but the main character from the virtual world enters his body and makes some pretty life-altering choices. 

His family grows to genuinely love him, the project becomes an overnight success, and within a decade, this new Dave becomes the richest man on Earth. However, not everyone suspects it's him in control of the body, which is now fitter and healthier. The entire secret of his death and subsequent cover begin to unravel with world-altering consequences.

Ombudsman

A superhero story originally entitled Child Soldier Factory. 

A smalltown hick with a heart of gold is abducted by aliens one night and recruited to fight a devastating civil war on the planet Ardozath. Little do his captors know, since they never abducted a human before, that on their world, the human body is all powerful. Their red sun bestows Timmy with the ability to fly, have super strength, shoot lasers from his eyes, have ice-breath, create infinite copies of himself, manipulate matter and energy, and more. 

Viewing him as a threat, both sides cease hostilities and unite against him. However, they are no match for him. So, they do the next best thing and crown him Emperor. They shower him with luxuries and attend to his every need and he becomes complacent. However, this is a ruse. The Ardozathi learn that he is a simpleton who will stay out of their way, allowing them time to work together and develop the means to depose him in peace.

Eventually, they create the means to get rid of him but by this point he is so bored and miserable that he asks to return to Earth before they can say anything. Not trusting him to keep his mouth shut, they alter his DNA so that he retains his powers back on Earth with the aim of sending him there to destroy the other humans who might one day pose a threat to his world.

The Overlapfield

To say Freddie Ellis had a traumatic childhood would be the understatement of the century. However, her music always provided her with exactly the right kind of escape from the horrors of her reality.

One day, while being attacked by a gang of losers, her favorite song played in the background and suddenly time slowed to a complete halt within a ten-meter radius of her location. She later discovers that this event somehow happened just when the membrane of her universe made contact with that of a parallel one. Almost like the two universes overlapped for a period and created pocket dimension over which she had full control.

She learns that this was not only a coincidence but also highly improbable. However, with a little bit of research, she finds a way to recreate this scenario which opens up the floodgates for the kind of life she always wanted. That is, until something goes horribly wrong on a cosmic scale and she becomes the only who can fix it.