Tomas Baiza is originally from San José, California, and now lives in Boise, Idaho, where he studies Creative Writing and serves as a staff editor for The Idaho Review. He is a Pushcart-nominated writer whose fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in various print and online journals. Tomas's first novel, Deliver Me: A Pocho's Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery, and his short-fiction collection, A Purpose To Our Savagery: Stories and Poems, are forthcoming on Running Wild/RIZE Press.
Deliver Me: A Pocho’s Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery
Giangrande getting on me for my lack of ambition still stings. Even here, with what I am about to do, I can’t completely pry it out of my head.
The weather is uncommonly pleasant for mid-November. Crissy Field is bustling with people playing frisbee, walking their dogs, enjoying picnics in their sweaters, some even wading into the cold water of San Francisco Bay with their pant legs rolled up. Read more.
Deliver Me: A Pocho’s Accidental Guide to College, Love, and Pizza Delivery
The shop is packed tonight, every table, booth, and bar stool taken and a line to the door for to-go slices. Zane’s hands are a blur at the register, Brenda’s out on some marathon convention run, Juan and Mario are heads-down pushing dough across the cornmeal-covered prep table, and I’m slinging slices and beers until my pizzas are ready. Read more.