Words of Sydney
Fiction. Memory. Fire.
Echoes of Lennan
A novel about trauma, survival, and the haunting kind of love.
A woman. A child. A man she almost trusted.
And the echoes that won’t let go.
Read an excerpt
"He said he loved me. But love doesn’t hide what begs to be seen.""Grief taught me something survival never did: silence isn't strength. Especially when it screams.""My baby was gone. The room smelled like antiseptic and iron. I couldn’t tell if the blood on my hands was mine or just memory, come back to stain me again."
It’s almost time.
Echoes of Lennan is coming — for every woman who was told to hush her grief.
About the Author
Sydney Alise doesn’t just write stories — she survives them first.She’s a writer, mother, spiritualist, and nurse who spent years patching up wounds in others while quietly bleeding herself. Her work is steeped in what she knows best: the ache and alchemy of Black womanhood — the way we’re expected to endure, the silence we’re forced to swallow, and the sacredness we reclaim anyway.Sydney’s debut novel, Echoes of Lennan, is more than fiction. It’s an offering. A reckoning. A mirror for the Black women who were never meant to make it out whole — and still did.She writes for the ones who:Were taught survival before softness.Mother with full hearts and empty hands.Were never handed a blueprint for healing, but built one from scratch anyway.There’s nothing polished or palatable about her stories — and that’s the point. Healing isn’t pretty. Grief isn’t tidy. But transformation? That’s holy.
“If grief had a heartbeat, it would sound like these pages.”
-Sydney Alise
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