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 woke up feeling like a snail without its shell: slow, slimy, and vulnerable.


My bed was empty. There wasn't even a smell of Gus left. My house was empty too. The late morning sunshine through my kitchen window seemed out of place. I could hear my chickens clucking outside.


Under my blankets I was still naked save for my underwear. 


I covered my face with my hands and groaned without break until I ran out of breath and the black behind my eyelids sparked for lack of oxygen.


I didn't bother getting up. For some reason, the idea of feeling the air on my skin unnerved me. The idea of leaving the corner of my house did the same. I didn't want to move, like prey caught in the gaze of a predator. 


My door creaked open. I peeked from between my fingers to see Gus, decked out in all his gear, looking towards me. At his soft smile, just like the tender one he'd given to me in the vision of the night before, I snapped those fingers back closed.


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