Moments of Conflict

Thinking about stories with good conflict:

1. A troop of elite special forces soldiers, high in the Afghan mountains, come into contact with a group of goat herders who, according to intelligence, are not supposed to be at this elevation. The soldiers consult one another. If they don't kill the goat herders, there's every possibility that their mission will be reported back down the mountain. But to kill the goat herders would be inhumane. But nobody would know if they did. The leader of the troop decides to let the goat herders go, along with a stern warning to tell no one. Seven hours later the soldiers are surrounded by a militia and under fire.

2. A woman in a neo-Nazi compound, married to one of the leaders, bears him his third child. It is mentally disabled. The members of the compound treat the child with derision and make thinly veiled jokes about exterminating it. The husband cannot stand to be near the child. It is an emblem of his fears and prejudice. The husband quickly gets the wife pregnant again. The fourth child is okay, however, he continues to abuse the third. The wife decides to take her children and run away.