Author: Rachel

Welcome to the web home of Rachel Heston Davis--young adult lit writer, newspaper stringer, and associate editor at Written World Communications. Please, make yourself at home. :) You can find loads of information here. For a peek into the secret life of an obsessive writer, read my blog. To see those writing projects on which I'm obsessing, visit the Writing page. If you're a fellow storyteller or story reader, I recommend Resources and Links to point you in the right direction. And as always, check my news feed for updates on projects and publishing!

Dear David Bowie

ByRachel January 11, 2016 0 Comments

I see you’ve thwarted my secret plan to someday arrange a meeting between yourself and my husband for his birthday. You old coot, you! The world has been without you for several hours now, and that’s several hours too long, if you ask me. In those hours, I’ve been crushed again and again by the possible meetings I had always imagined with you. We were waiting for you to do just one more...

The kind of person who goes places in the car between sleeps.

ByRachel January 10, 2016 2 Comments

Last night, I had a little problem. I woke up after two hours of sleep feeling totally awake. I unknowingly suffered from severe sleep apnea for years, due to a tiny throat cavity (thanks genetics, I owe you). For years, my body operated off of sub-par sleep every single day, so it still gets mixed up on occasion and thinks that two to three hours of real sleep is an absolute feast, and that...

Star Wars: The Reviewer Awakens

ByRachel December 23, 2015 1 Comment

I didn’t think I would review this movie. I didn’t think I would even go see this movie. Yet here I am on a Monday night, penning the intro of what turned out to be the most complex review I’ve ever written on my blog. Dreamed up at 1 a.m., patched together over several days, written and re-written and edited, here is my experience of The Force Awakens. (Spoilers. Duh.) 1997...

If ISIS is the Joker, are we the boats?

ByRachel November 16, 2015 1 Comment

Politicians are becoming reluctant to welcome Syrian refugees after the tragic attack in Paris last weekend. Remember the boat scene in The Dark Knight? The Joker strands two boats on a river, gives them the ability to blow each other up, and states that if neither boat has destroyed the other by midnight, he'll destroy them both. I'm pretty sure ISIS is doing some version of this right now, and...

Democrats were democratting while Republicans republicked.

ByRachel November 12, 2015 0 Comments

Something big happened today. Sitting in the line at Starbucks (having ordered one of those unholy red abominations at my own eternal peril), I turned to NPR for some entertainment. I thought before I turned there, "Ten to one they'll be talking politics." And gosh darn if they didn't read my mind. I've heard a million political conversations and broadcasts by this point in my life. But on this...