College student writes children's book (AP) — On the first page of the children's book, a girl named Lottie wakes up screaming. Lottie stars in "The Curse of the Fates," written by a young woman named Sydney Olson, who woke up one day to find strands of long hair covering her pillow and didn't understand why. "What girl wants to lose her hair?" Sydney says, sitting in her new north Lincoln apartment, a country girl from Sutton. [...] she explains what inspired it: an autoimmune disease that causes hair loss called alopecia. Except for a few "creepers" on her ankles, says Sydney, "damn random little hairs." Hair on her pillow, hair in the shower, clumps on the carpet when she pulled her hair out of a ponytail, starting in June 2012. Sydney was her high school class president, participated in National Honor Society, yearbook, student council, but by the fall of 2013, she was holing up in her college dorm room, angry, tearful. Chyanne is her roommate now, another country girl who loves horses and swing dancing and she has long red hair, shiny like a model in a shampoo commercial. [...] an old lady, part witch, part medieval herbalist, who shadows Lottie on her journey, offering her concoctions to cure her baldness, and then wisdom to see how strong she'd become. [...] this summer, she's been busy, handing out her book in doctors' offices, at schools and libraries.