The Disability Book Archive

[ID: A white sheet with the logo for The Disability Archive in the upper right corner. Black text on the sheet reads: “Cover Replacement” at the top. “Title: Grandmother-nai-Leylit’s Cloth of Winds/ Author: R. B. Lemberg/ Found In: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Issue #175, June 11. 2015” in the centre. “No cover for this book could be found. Until a cover is found, this sheet will be used.” at the bottom. /end]

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Content Warning:

• Death
• References to Kidnap
• References to Confinement
• Discrimination
• Ableism

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Summary:

A young woman grows up without magic in a magical family and society, with strict rules and roles that are often tied to gender. When she sets off on a journey and her adult life begins, she finds her worldview tested—especially when members of her family come out as transgender and begin to transition.

For a more detailed summary, see here.

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Notes:

To read this story, and more in the Beneath Ceaseless Skies series, see here.

Beneath Ceaseless Skies is a non-profit online magazine. It is focused on publishing adventure fantasy, fantasy set in secondary-world or historical paranormal settings. Find out more here.

There is no cover for this short story specifically, but here is the cover for the magazine issue:

[ID: Cover for issue 175 of the online magazine Beneath Ceaseless Skies. Text down the left side reads: “Beneath Ceaseless Skies” in large shiny gold writing. “An Online Magazine” in smaller white writing. “Literary Adventure Fantasy” in dark gold writing. The names of the issue’s editors “Ken Scholes” and “Rose Lemberg” are written in smaller white writing in the lower right corner. The background shows a large desert landscape with a small, faint figure in the lower left corner. Large eels appear to be in the sky, which takes up most of the cover. /end]

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Archivist Comments:

This was such an interesting story. I had to take the summary from another website (linked above) and I’ve done my best to put a content warning list together just from my own read through, but I have almost certainly missed something so just let me know if something needs to be added.

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