Greetings my friend,
This is Lawrence Bowman, the founder of Left Alive. I want to personally thank you for visiting LeftAlive.net. The intention of Left Alive is to be a support to you, me, and all the people around our lives.
Unfortunately, each of us are victims of violence and we have pains. Many of us are hurting and some are wondering what is the purpose in life? A deeper cruel reality is that some enter criminal activity, such as gang life, and transfer their pains by oppressing others. Meanwhile, some of the oppressed stay on the sidelines of life and drown in their pains.
Some good news is that we all have stories that need to be shared with others. Telling our stories is a part of healing for ourselves and others. Most people in life are not able to put their story into a book, but we all can take the opportunity to write it in short form for others to hear it and learn from it.
LeftAlive.net is intended for you to express your story. Your story, her story, his story, and my story are very unique and personal realities. Our stories are a personal testimony of survival of an experience. There is an innumerable audience, the world, who can benefit from our stories. Our stories will be another resource for victims to learn from and to be encouraged to continue through the difficult challenges that unpredictably enter our lives.
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The story that founder, Lawrence Bowman, wrote and is now published as a book is somber and intense. His book, Left Alive, is an important, cautionary novel that confirms that when it comes to the path of passion and love, it is best to take it slow and it is best to listen to your intuition and keep your wits about you. Moving and suspenseful the plot’s searing action is like a freight train, unstoppable, unsettling, and completely disturbing. With an even-keeled prose and a rush of action, the book take readers down a grim and necessary road that proves that while hindsight is twenty-twenty, the mind’s eye is an instinctual and a God given phenomenon—Listen to it.
"Elizabeth" has not had the easiest of paths. Abandoned by her husband, she is forced to raise her two young children on her own in rural Ohio. She works hard and her family is especially happy for her when she meets a handsome, charming man who seems doting and kind. The newfound companionship and romance is nice, in fact, it is all Elizabeth has dreamed of, but behind the facade lays a man with a dark heart. Elizabeth sees glimpses of his temper, but she ignores her instincts and the warning signs of his aggressive nature, and after a short-lived courtship when she angers him, he inadvertently shoots his gun at her with little warning. Unable to remedy the situation, in cold blood, he fires the gun again, this time in the head, which goes in one side and out the other. After bleeding from her head for nearly eight hours, her little toddler son finds her in the early morning hours barely alive. Miraculously, she survives the immense trauma, massive swelling, emergency surgeries, and a deep coma. Elizabeth’s story is a testament of faith, family, and that while miracles do happen, we must listen to our instincts—it can be a matter of life and death.
