Bryce Blair

Fiction & Poetry exploring queerness, class, and the Midwest

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Another Storm in Nebraska

Originally published in The 13th Floor Magazine, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Issue Spring 2026 Another Storm in Nebraska It was always yellowish-graybefore the storm came.The open prairie, the family farm, the storm cellarnone of it would protect me. Humidity hung in the airthick with the weight of tension. My mom nailed a mirror to the…

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He Is

Originally published in The 13th Floor Magazine, University of Nebraska at Omaha, Issue Spring 2025 He Is He is a magician. He is a pair of eyes at the end of a threatened tongue. His friends say he is strong for breathing air that’s not his. He doubts his lungs are laced completely together. He…

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