This is the story about a girl who lives within a collection of tiny islands. Each island has a god-speaking leader that sends one child from every household on a boat to one of the uninhabited islands. They do this in the hopes that they will come back as warriors. But the children are told that they will be sent to the afterlife to greet their ancestors and live in harmony with them. The girl is set on a raft, and the raft lands on an island several miles away from original. There she encounters a large ape like creature that she follows around and starts to like. They eventually become friends and she spends 15 years of her life with him, eventually leaving the island on the same raft. As she turns back, she sees that the creature turned to stone once she left. And she looks forward towards her new future off the island.

A old important man of a prominent royal family dies, and secrets from his past are recovered bit by bit. As both sides of his family prepare for the funeral, there’s a big debate over how he should be buried based on his conflicting religious views.

What if different types of hatred or prejudice were characterized as monsters? And depending on how big and evil the hatred was made the monster uglier, scarier, smarter and harder to destroy. What if there was a group of people dealing with different forms or hatred and prejudice that had to fight these monsters for the sake of their people or community. The process of them being defeated and learning more about the monster and eventually defeating it corresponds to big changes in societies views on their people.

Have a story with an asexual character in it. Make it more about their personality and their romantic tendencies, but less about their sexual attractiveness.

A story that makes people aware of the complicated nuances of governments and stupid things we don’t really think about in our society. For example, a couple talks about how they do unspeakable things in the bedroom that should be illegal, when really they are just pirating movies and TV shows or something like that.

A new planet is discovered with a native humanoid species. A hundred years or so after this, stories are told about the land rights conflicts, individual fights with and about the species, tours of the planet gone terribly wrong, and much more. It’s all to make people aware that the problems we have today are because of our ancestors mistakes and or the their prejudices and preconceived notions. ~~~~~~~~~~
Why do the hearts glow?
Do they glow when you see the person? Hear them? Touch them?
Can the glowing go away? If it can, can it also come back?
How do others react to the glowing?