What Is the Silence Cycle?
The Silence Cycle is a sweeping, multi-genre project that explores silence in all its forms: as suffering and solace, as trauma and triumph.
Created by writer Alyiana Brandenburg, this body of work combines memoir, fiction, poetry, sci-fi, and fantasy to tell one interconnected story—a story about what it means to live, break, and rebuild.
At the center of the series is Mara, a woman navigating bipolar disorder, motherhood, trauma, creativity, and healing. Whether grounded in raw memoir or imagined worlds, her journey reveals how silence shapes—and sometimes saves—us.
In Where the Silence Screams and How the Silence Screams Back, Alyiana Brandenburg offers a candid, unfiltered look into living with bipolar disorder. These memoirs are testimonies of survival—tender, fierce, and unflinchingly honest. This is where the Silence Cycle begins: with truth.
- Where the Silence Screams
- How the Silence Screams Back
- Between Me and Silence
The Stories of the Silence collection follows the inner lives of Mara, Alex, and Eliana as they navigate trauma, mental illness, and the complexities of human connection. These emotional short stories live in the space where the silence breaks—and what happens next changes everything.
- When the Silence Trembles
- When the Silence Breaks
- When the Silence Heals
- When the Silence Shifts
In a world reborn from loss, The Chronicles of Auriela explores the rebuilding of hope through myth, magic, and the mysteries of a new planet. This fantasy branch of The Silence Cycle asks what it means to begin again when everything once known has vanished. A place where silence doesn’t end—it evolves.
- Chronicles of Auriela
Raw, lyrical, and intimate, the poems in Threading the Pieces speak from the soul’s fractured places. Each verse is a stitch in the larger wound, threading sorrow, truth, and resilience into something whole. This is the poetic heart of The Silence Cycle—where words aren’t just expression, they’re recovery.
- Threading the Pieces
Set in the final hours of Earth’s existence, Diary of Earth’s Final Hours follows those who escape to the stars. As humanity faces extinction, these sci-fi narratives wrestle with grief, memory, and the possibility of life beyond loss. Silence becomes both a haunting echo and a gateway to survival.
- The Day We Watched the World Collapse
- Beyond the Stars
- New World, New Fate
