She had only wanted to have a working marriage and a happy family. All of her efforts had been towards that goal. Despite that, her husband leaves her for another woman after the loss of her unborn child, and just as she starts to pick herself up, she dies in a car accident.

But this isn't the end of her story.

Her spirit is picked up by her brother. He happens to be a beginner god who needs help raising the hero who is supposed to save his fledgling world. Thinking he is offering her a long-sought-after opportunity to be a mother, she readily agrees, and he sends her down to his world with the gift of healing and a Methuselah grade body to aid her on her quest. She quickly finds her little boy and is overjoyed to have someone to love and baby at last. But this hero doesn't want her as his mother. He wants her as something else.

Suggested for ages 14+. 

Raising a Hero is created by T.S. Lowe, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

Raising a Hero

I soaked in my tub for a long time. Dr. Mustache had given me the day off. I wish he hadn't. I would have enjoyed the excuse of work to not think. 


I was eventually chased out by the cool water and my gurgling stomach. My headache had long vanished, so I had that, at least. Gus would hopefully understand if I didn't make it to the barracks on time for his specialized lunch. They served lunch there anyways, but since they didn't allow seconds, I wanted to be assured that my Gus had more than his fill. He needed all bacon he could get on those bones.


I oozed into a clean dress like a worm. Or, figuratively, I did. Emotionally. You know, in my heart I was a worm and I wiggled into my dress like one. Though I did lay on the carpet like a worm for a minute longer, doing everything in my power not to think.


"Good crap, all I did was skip breakfast," and puked. "Can't a woman brood in peace?"


Growl said the stomach. In stomach that meant 'no.'


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