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

Gus's memories blurred, like colors being washed downstream. I found myself standing amidst a tornado of his presence, filled with the familiar taste of current emotions and the smell of his passing thoughts. He asked if I was okay. He apologized for being selfish. He hid his metaphysical face in shame.


"There were so many people living in hell that I could have helped and all I was concerned about was my own damn self. There were even people, probably countless people, who died while I had my head up my ass. And then how I treated Roman for looking out for me all that time."


"No. That's how I was my entire life. That's who I am."


Something like a spark poked out from the stream about me.


"I doubt that," I said, as I reached for it. His lies, even the ones to himself, tasted like peanut butter in this realm. 


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