{"id":1374,"date":"2018-08-23T19:00:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T19:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/?page_id=1374"},"modified":"2022-10-27T09:46:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T09:46:01","slug":"sheriff-donner-part-5","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/sheriff-donner-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Sheriff Donner part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino,serif; font-size: 14pt;\">by Joe Stanley<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">&#8220;This is Unit 14, come in Unit 20.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is Unit 14, come in. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Come on Sheriff&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Luke grumbled as he splashed along the pools of the flooded River road. Suddenly, the dark sky lit up like day. It seemed like a sun was rising up from the forest. He stared, slack jawed, as it floated for a second before it streaked up through the clouds and out of sight.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Like the Sheriff, he was forced to slam on his brakes, but for Luke this was to avoid hitting the sheriff&#8217;s car which sat, dark and quiet, in the road. Also like the sheriff, he gawked at the muddy channel and the tangled heaps of trees. Likewise, he felt an odd revulsion to the glowing, golden oil he found along the way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">But at the end of the trail, whatever had made it was gone. There was only a depression, as if something impossibly heavy had pressed its bulk into the ground.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">And to the sinking of his heart, which would never truly rise again for the rest of his days, he found no sign of Sheriff Donner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/jonah-epperly\/\"><em><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">next part<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-86 size-full\" style=\"border: 0px solid #ffffff;\" src=\"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/scroll.png\" alt=\"The Ghostly World Fictional Ghost Stories\" width=\"1000\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/scroll.png 1000w, https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/scroll-300x20.png 300w, https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/scroll-768x51.png 768w, https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/scroll-945x63.png 945w, https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/scroll-600x40.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/sheriff-donner-part-4\/\">back to previous episode<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jonathanharker.co.uk\/theghostlyworld\/\">back to list of stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Joe Stanley &#8220;This is Unit 14, come in Unit 20. This is Unit 14, come in. Come on Sheriff&#8230;&#8221; Luke grumbled as he splashed along the pools of the flooded River road. Suddenly, the dark sky lit up like day. It seemed like a sun was rising up from the forest. 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