Pink Elephants

Just before birdshot obliterated his spine and embedded in a lung, nine-year-old Lloyd didn't hear the crack of the shotgun. Thrust from behind, his body lunged  while he repeated the prayer, "I don't want to die." Bleeding on the floor, he passed out for the first time. Paralyzed and already having endured hospital after hospital, fifteen-year-old Lloyd is relegated to The Crippled Children's Hospital in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania. A kind of Hotel California, it's an institution where mos