Desiree Matlock lives in a Florida beach town with her beau and two fluffballs that she claims are a cat and a dog. Her children, who live nearby, claim that if you lose track of her, you’ll find her playing the nearest piano and that she cannot do chores without singing. She’s a recovering pedant, history buff and a travel addict.
Desiree writes short stories, flash fiction, vignettes, novellas, and occasionally the collection or novel, in sci-fi, paranormal and mystery genres under her own name and under pen names.
She says; “What I write contains inspiration from real life, some made-up stuff, and a little magic, although sometimes the lines blur. I try not to take you to a dark place without showing you how to get out of it. Sometimes it needs to be written more than I need to know why. I try to make sure each work lifts by the end.”
Published numerous times in short story anthologies, she’s writing on several platforms. Every blue moon, she updates this website with some more of her published works. You’re welcome to join the mailing list to keep up with whatever has most recently been published. You can find most works available on Amazon, or in the Stories My Friends’ Started website, or a number of other literary presses and groups.
Désirée has been writing short fiction since she was nine, when she she used up all her father’s typewriter ribbons writing a time travel story on an Underwood. At thirteen, the Selectric allowed two entire lines of saved text and was a massive luxury. These days, while she loves the luxury of modern cloud-based writing tools, she misses the ribbons.
The background image of the website is an homage to “Rippled Surface” by M.C Escher.
