Scary View

By Keith Hickman

Scary View is a story that reflects a strange and diabolical view of the world. The story starts with a corpsman who is in the beginning of the Gulf War. He is assigned with a marine recon unit and finds courage in the middle of battle. His wife and children go back home to Greenville, California. His eyes were opened to evil during battle and see his town engulfed with evil. He leads a revival with the local churches that backfire. The town and his family enter into a world of hell he never would have anticipated. His family is torn apart, and so is the town.

In the center of the town is the local hospital. Its called the Sacred View of the Virgin Mary, but the locals call it scary view. With a history of death and secrets, it holds up to its name. It is a hospital with sterile white walls with paint peeling and of staph infections. The staff has little regards for human life but puts a large amount on the monetary gains from the dead and living. The town also has its secrets and mysteries of deaths. The remainder of the book tells stories of the hospital and the town, and at the end, is an ominous warning. Its a scary view of the world in which we now live in.

We know things are true because they are. My little brother is in a museum in Indiana. He used to watch the ball game with my grandfather.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 23, 2017
• ISBN: 9781524697747

Keith Hickman

Story is written by Keith Hickman: Retired Submarine Service, Retired Hospital Engineer, BS Degree Workforce Education/Development, AS Degree Liberal Arts, Certificate in Human Service; Mental Health/Substance Abuse, and over 26 Electronic, Management and Supply Schools from the service. Published seven other books of different genre from AuthorHouse.

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Published by AuthorHouse 06/23/2017

ISBN: 978-1-5246-9775-4 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5246-9774-7 (e)

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1    Foreword

Chapter 2    Paul's Story

Chapter 3    Going Home

Chapter 4    The Hospital

Chapter 5    Hell Town

Chapter 6    The Legends of the Hospital.

Chapter 7    The Town That Hell Built

Chapter 8    Ominous Warning

Chapter 9    Morals and Ethics

Chapter 10  The Big But

CHAPTER 1

FOREWORD

Greenville California is like any southwestern town, and surrounding communities across America. It is nestled up against the Sierra Mountains with a hospital, and a church on every corner. The town people are a close relative, and gossip type of town. If you do anything in this community good or bad, it’s published the next day in the paper. Crime, drugs, and teenage pregnancies are at an all time high. What make this place different than any other town across America are the town hospital, and its secrets. The hospital on the other hand has a reputation as a hospital of death. The hospital in Greenville is called The Sacred View of the Virgin Mary. But to its patients its called Scary View, and it lives up to its reputation. Everyone in town knows everything about everyone else, but strangers beware.

One time the feds tried to infiltrate the town, and its men were never found. Another day by chance a stranger in town went to check on her storage unit. The storage company had rented the storage unit next to it to some crooks. They were knocking holes through the walls to steal stuff. They knocked a hole in one, and found it filled with bags of cocaine. They were caught trying to sell the stuff. Fearing for their lives, they made a deal with the FBI. It was the largest bust in California history with no convictions.

Another day a stranger came into town, and no one knew whom he was. His clothes were worn and dirty, and he smelled like he hadn’t bathed for a week. He went from church to church looking for sanctuary, and could not find any. For the entire good God fearing people of the town closed their doors on the man, and kicked him to the curb. They would come out of their churches, and look down their noses at him in disgust. The police would be called saying he was harassing the people, and begging for handouts as they left the church. All but one man named Paul, who worked as paramedic, and funeral home assistance. Paul, his wife Rosa, and their children saw compassion and sorrow in the eyes of the man. They helped him with food and shelter. {In Kings James Version, Chapter 24, and Paragraph 42 - 51…}

{Note: No person, place, or thing reference in this book is real. Any likeness is purely anagogic and happenstance.}

CHAPTER 2

PAUL'S STORY

The same day Paul came back from the war in Iraq. He had grown up in Greenville, and joined the Navy as a Corpsman after 9/11. He came back after serving a 6-year enlistment with the Marine Corps, as a Navy Medic. He was trying to go to college on the Montgomery G.I. Bill, and become a nurse. His wife Roseanna, or as she prefers Rosa, are staying with relatives. While her husband tries to get back on his feet. In the mean time, they attend various churches in the area to find the one that’s right for them. They try his family church, which was Southern Baptist. Then they try her family church, which was Catholic. Unfortunately nether church meets neither their needs, nor their beliefs about God.

While under fire in Baghdad. Paul was given a little White pocket edition of the New Testament by the base Chaplin. He made him swear he would read it after a mission gone horribly wrong. So he carried the little Bible everywhere he went. He found the best time to read it was when he was at the head (toilet), or rerouted to a hot Drop Zone to extract wounded, and dead Marines. He eventually read both the New International Version, and the New King James Version of the Bible, from cover to cover. Paul was on fire for the lord when he came home. He tried in vain to get his wife to read the bible. For Rosa the kids, job, and home were all she could handle, and never found the time to read it.

Rosa was traumatized by 9/11, when her world as a newly wed was shattered. Her husband joined the Navy, and took one of the most dangerous jobs in the Military. He became a U.S. Navy Corpsman, whose job is to rescue, and keep Marines alive. His first mission was being part of the First Expeditionary Force into Iraq. Rosa didn’t hear from Paul for four months. She lived on fear, and hope that her husband who was soon to be a father, would come home soon. As a combat Medic he was assigned to a Marine Recon unit, and everything was top secret. The only information Rosa could get was from the wives ombudsman. (Ombudsman = a person in charge of moral and welfare of spouses, while military personnel are deployed. They keep the spouse informed, which comes from the Commanding Officer.) All she could tell Rosa was that Paul was alive and healthy.

Finally one night near the end of Paul’s enlistment in the Navy. Rosa cried herself to sleep. Rosa was awakened, and turned on the light on the nightstand next to her bed. There on the nightstand was a Bible her mother gave her the day before Paul left for Iraq. She opened the Bible to a page marked by a religious bookmarker. She begun to read, and tears rolled down her eyes as she read. The words were like knives stabbing her in the heart with each passing word. It was as if the words were written just for her, and only her. The feeling she had was like