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

A familiar two story cottage, carefully made and set within a stone-fenced garden, stood tall against a tearing blue sky. A breeze scented with fresh-cut grass brushed across me. It brought along the hushed applaud of tree leaves that edged the fields of grass around the cottage. I thought I could make out a little trio of sheep not too far off, watched over by a little girl with auburn hair and hands full of wild flowers. Though I wasn't close enough to see, I could still imagine the furrow of her brow as she weaved the flowers stems together. A little, silver haired boy bounced around in the garden, hitting a stick against the stone walls as he walked around. I thought I could hear the faint tune he sung. And trailing behind was another silver haired child, pretending to sing along.


I didn't go in, as I had other times. Rather, I stepped off the path and took a seat in the grass. It felt as soft as new spring blades against my shins.


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