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

"Of course. You don't have to be the hero. It's always your choice."


"No it's not," he said, flat as old soda. "What kind of choice is there if God gives you the job? You refuse the job you'll get a divine slap upside the head or worse. There's no choice at all."


"Gussy..." I said weakly, for lack of anything else to say.


He shrugged off my hands, which had been on his arms. 


"So you can stop...this." He gestured towards me vaguely. "I don't want to. This is shit." He turned to amble off.


I didn't miss the uneven totter to his gait.


"Gus, you're not well, at least come back with me."


"I hear perfectly fine and I don't care if you're the hero or not! You have every right to be frustrated and upset and--and--heck, I had loads of problems with my brother's way of giving callings, so I can get it, so it's okay with me if you're not the hero, you're still my Gus."


His voice almost squeaked. "Don't say it like that." 


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