1. Crossover Romance
    "Night Wind"

    A demon guised as a man named Syntian Cree falls in love with the virtuous Lauren Fowler and seeks to destroy those who have harmed her in the past.
    Cree is bound by pact to Angeline who allows him only snatches of a life which contains his beloved.     After their marriage, Cree disappears leaving Lauren to first learn the truth about her     husband, then search the dark and terrifying world of demonology to be reuinted with him once again.

    Lauren Fowler is the protagonist.     Her external conflict deals with the traps and pitfalls of the underworld, directed by Angeline, who would see the woman fail and thereby lose her hold over the demon Cree.

2. Horror
    "A Small Dark Place"

    Peter and Sandra Wiley, once highly popular in school, now married with children and down on their luck after a series of failed crops, design a hoax to play on the media and the sympathy of strangers to generate a lot of cash in a hurry.     Their plans go awry when five year old daughter Andromeda falls into the old well shaft meant to safely and temporarily contain their son, who actually enjoys dark, cramped places.     Andromeda certainly does not, as evidenced by her fear of the basement.     Her accidental participation in the hoax is immediately picked up by the media, and in a frenzy reminiscent of "Baby Jesica", "Baby Andromeda's" plight evokes the sympathies of the town of Wishbone, Kansas and the nation.     Support in the form of cash and services pours in and Andromeda is eventually and inevitably rescued.     She is forever changed however, and returns to Wishbone fifeteen years later as an adult to revisit the scene of her ordeal, with deadly consequences.     Something ancient and immeasurably evil touched the little girl while she was trapped deep in the earth.     That evil resurfaces during her visit and she sets out to destroy those who have since capitalized on her plight.

    Peter Wiley is the protagonist.     He is reluctant to use his children in a scam, but eventually concedes, and feels remorse long afterward.     His "external conflict" deals with his attempts to stop the ancient evil, now hosted by his once loving daughter, from destroying the townspeople one by one.

3. Television Series
    "7 Days"

    Colonel Frank Parker, in his duties as a chrononaut, travels seven days back in time to stop a top secret code from being cracked.     With little background information available, Parker is ordered by the NSA to "terminate with extreme prejudice" the individual responsible for breaking the code.     Parker arrives to his destination and discovers that "Walter", the genius with the ability to see patterns, is in reality an Autistic Savant with no real awareness of the consequences of his actions.     Because of his childlike innocence, Parker decides not to terminate Walter, and relays his decision to the NSA, who refuse to countermand the original order.     Parker must now protect Walter not only from the organization who duped him into attempting the code, but from NSA agents who have orders to "shoot to kill".

    Parker is the protagonist.     His "external conflict" is the inability to convince the authorities in the NSA that Walter is innocent of crime.     His "struggle" is to secure Walter from harm.     Although exemplified by NSA agents and unscrupulous foreign interests, the antagonist in this plot is the sometimes blind and unfeeling justice of "bureaucracy", couched in the guise of "Protecting the Nation at all cost".

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