Alright, so, here's what's going on: I'm publishing the rest of 'Raising a Hero' on Wattpad Which is complete at 243 chapters which means a lot of clicking and staring at a screen and waiting for my old, duct-tapped laptop to load up screens, so be grateful! Is happening because my experiment with digital platforms … Continue reading What’s Going On (Raising a Hero, Aliens, Vampires, Nigh-Naked Jim, etc)
Tag: parenting
Morning Sickness
Last the days though one night is impossible. Survival through sheer what? Enduring cannot be wasting and withering, and begging for death. Many others have survived. Speak of the night like a fond ghost story, still tingling with horror, because newborns are worth it. Worth it... It's not the worth I fear, nor the lack … Continue reading Morning Sickness
The Responsible Party
Fill me full of dreams while an angel destroys a kitchen and burns holes in the carpet with a child's dream of a match bonfire. Say I may have luck while reprimanding the me, the mom, because the angel spilled the juice left soda on the stairs and got into, yet more matches. Say I'm … Continue reading The Responsible Party
Wet Wings
My love, You were raised with your father's ideals but by your mother's pragmatism. When talents first bud upon your hands, you clapped for joy and squished them between your palms, making room for more, but not height for growth. My love, You spy the light on the other side with delight, for look, a … Continue reading Wet Wings
Raising a Hero–chapter 27
Closing time came and I found myself with just enough energy to be up to magic practice for the first time in over a week. Derrick went to sleep on the floor in Milly and Hal’s room (it was a bit larger than the little thing Gus and I shared), and Gus and I settled … Continue reading Raising a Hero–chapter 27
Raising a Hero–chapter 24
That evening, I went into my room to grab my nightgown and check on Derrick to find a huge, shirtless, bandaged stranger sitting where I had left him. It took me several blinks and the man’s awkward shifting for it to click. “Wow, so you do have a face underneath all that fur?” He gave … Continue reading Raising a Hero–chapter 24
Raising a Hero–Chapter 17
My original plan of saving up for a house with the earnings I got from the inn was proving to be a bust. Since room and board were already included in my pay, what Hal could spare outside that, while not slave’s pay, wasn’t substantial enough to get me a place of my own anytime … Continue reading Raising a Hero–Chapter 17
Raising a Hero–Chapter 16
We decided to practice at night. Only made sense. We still had to learn to read and write too. Even so, I read the section ahead of time during short breaks inbetween serving that night. Part of it was next to Derrick, who invited me to sit with him during a lull so he could … Continue reading Raising a Hero–Chapter 16
Raising a Hero–Chapter 14
In the dim of what light made it around the curtains of the window, such as the few streetlamps and stars, I could make out the shape of Gus’s face looking back at me in the dark. “Are you doing better?” I asked, just above a whisper, for that’s all that was needed when we … Continue reading Raising a Hero–Chapter 14
Raising a Hero–Chapter 13
“—CAN’T, YOU CAN’T! Please, don’t die, don’t die, don’t leave me, no-no-nonono HELP! Someone help! PLEASE! Help me please!!” He had gone white. Whiter than he had been when I’d found him, dying in an alley. But, then, he’d been much dirtier then too. His hands, which had been on the sides of my head … Continue reading Raising a Hero–Chapter 13
Author T.S. Lowe 