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

We woke up to a sun turned red by smoke and a hazy gray sky. I listened to some folk wonder to each other if they should even try to tend to their crops today or get to work widening the irrigation trench in hopes the line of water could somehow save them. They had already chopped down the trees around the farmland, but the wind could carry sparks across any distance.


It was Master Joe who put a firm end to this discussion.


"The fire is growing in the opposite direction," he said. "I just got the word from Entry. Even if it changes directions, we have plans in place for this. Earth, fire, wind, we got 'em all, weak or not, so stop worrying and get working."


The tension in the air lessened and the relief was visible on the people's faces.


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