A private detective's real case files. Supernatural transformations. Ordinary people pulled into the extraordinary. Events of an Ordinary Life is a genre-crossing story collection where fact and imagination blur. Drawing on decades as a licensed New Jersey private investigator, Frank Conrad Musumici turns fragments of real cases into a wide-ranging collection of short fiction, some rooted in his own files, some conjured entirely from his imagination. Characters are transformed in strange and unsettling ways. Everyday lives tip suddenly into the uncanny. Readers who love literary short fiction, supernatural and speculative tales, or detective fiction will find something built for them in nearly every story. Winner, Best Fiction Book, Akademia Literary Awards, 2021.