Ranging from dark tales of vampires and serial killers to tongue-in-cheek science fiction to comedy and farce, My Shorts, by author Berg G. Osterberg, shares an eclectic collection of short stories centering on life, death, and laughter.

"The Option" was written while Osterberg contemplated his past. "High School" was inspired by a plot twist in Tchaikovsky's opera, The Queen of Spades, and recalls his own tortured high school career. "To Amerikay" calls on his love of history as told in the stories of ordinary people who do extraordinary things. "Three Views" shares...