Jerry Oglethorpe | The Sun Magazine

Jerry Oglethorpe

Jerry Oglethorpe is a writer who lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

— From September 1988
Fiction

The Flag-Draped Coffin

Oron flanks left with the small platoon of formally dressed sailors, all in ceremonial blue wool, all armed with parade M-1 rifles. The overcast sky is ashen on this mid-November day, and the wind pulsates bleakly over this little land of the dead.

September 1988
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