The Mobster in Our Midst

John Franzese, Jr. was an up-and-coming gangster, then a drug addict, then a rat who helped send his own father to prison, and finally “Mat Pazzarelli” — his witness protection name. Now he’s rebuilt his life, is out of witness protection and has one thing left to do — go see his dad.

Author: Zak Keefer
Published: Apr 1, 2019
Length: 25 minutes (6,350 words)

He’s nearly blind. He’s flat broke. But he carries Olympic gold in his pocket.

As the only American boxer to win a gold medal (in the middleweight division) in the 1972 Olympics, Sugar Ray Seales should have become an icon, but even though a lifetime of blows to the head cost him his eyesight and finances, Seales is content, teaching the sport to those that want to learn from a man whom the mitts carried to unimaginable heights

Author: Zak Keefer
Published: Apr 12, 2018
Length: 8 minutes (2,147 words)