I'm Jackie Ross Flaum
   Award-winning Writer

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 and a Southern woman tempered by years in the North.

Who knew short stories were so fun! Take a gander at my growing number of short stories. Then watch for my soon to be released novel. All my work is full of murder, criminal activity, mystery, churches, Baby Boomers, kids, crazy people, normal people acting funny, and a few odd relatives. (If you think I'm talking about you, I am.)
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Oh, and I make jewelry inspired by characters or places in my stories. Buy some for your wife, daughter or mother's birthday. She'll be happy you remembered.

My Writing

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She said WHAT?
Oh no, she did not...
“The First Barbecue in Memphis”

"The Yellow Fever Revenge" necklace

"Gummies"
won second place in Short Story Land competition. Marijuana smuggling was never so much fun.

Up-coming Stories in “Low Down Dirty VOTE” and “Backchannels”

"HOW WE BECAME METHODISTS" will appear in the spring 2020 issue of the quarterly literary journal, Backchannels.  Told through the eyes of his older sister, this humorous story finds a boy with a pocketful of firecrackers at a church he and his family don't particularly like. They attend to please their grandmother. The boy finds an income opportunity at Sunday School, and, well, all hell breaks loose.  On this Sunday, family traditions are blown up by a hot sanctuary,  sharp-tongued parishioners, and lots of fireworks. | www.backchannelsjournal.net/
“TWO DEAD,TWO WOUNDED” will be among the stories in Low Down Dirty Vote, the second anthology of crime fiction centered around America’s favorite past-time, voting. Charlie Adams will cast his first ballot in the 1910 sheriff’s race in Espy County, Kentucky. For him it’s a rite of passage and a necessity if he wants to get things done in his community. But politics are rough in Espy County. Charlie just didn’t figure on being part of an Election Day voting dispute. 

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I'm always interested in my readers, what they think about my characters, the stories I tell and the jewelry I make . If you've read my writing or bought the jewelry and want to leave a review, please do!
Cover design by Lynn Maples | Online Portfolio

 Coming Soon on Amazon
​as Kindle Single

Elizabeth McAlister suffered through a yellow fever outbreak in Memphis in 1867. She was lucky to survive when others did not.

​  So when rumors of another outbreak start swirling In 1878, she plots to get her toddler son out. 

But she has to stay.

Her rapist Barkley Mills, the father of her son, has moved to Memphis. Because of him she and his infant son nearly starved. Because of him she works in a millinery shop and a brothel.

Yellow fever be damned.

Elizabeth is determined to kill Barkley before yellow fever takes that pleasure from her.
 
This Kindle single comes from the short story of the same name in the award-winning anthology, “Elmwood Stories to Die For.”
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