LAZARUS: “Some awakenings begin with the end.”

He died with his eyes open—and came back with nothing closed.Lazarus “Laz” Raymond had finally moved on—or so he thought. Divorced, distant from his children, and tangled in a shallow relationship with a woman who loved his paycheck more than his presence, he was surviving, not living. But one argument too many sends Laz storming out the door—and straight into tragedy. When a drunk driver sends his car spinning into darkness, Lazarus is declared unresponsive. Machines keep his body alive, but his spirit? It wanders—watching. Trapped in a state between life and death, Laz relives the broken pieces of his past: the quiet failures, the silences between him and his ex-wife Denise, the moments with his children that slipped through his fingers. And through it all, one truth begins to burn: he left the wrong love behind. While Denise fights to keep him alive and his girlfriend urges doctors to let him go, Lazarus battles through memory, regret, and revelation. But when he finally wakes—everything he saw, he remembers. Now he must return not just to the world—but to himself. With haunting honesty and soulful clarity, Lazarus is a powerful story of second chances, emotional reckoning, and the kind of love that waits… even after the lights go out. Some people survive. Lazarus came back different. Read more