"Never Gonna Be Bored" is by Adam and the Couch Potatoes. H. H. Monro (known as Saki) wrote "The Storyteller." The poet Horace wrote the Ars Poetica, which says (depending on your translation) that "poetry has two aims -- to instruct and to give delight." You can read a little bit about the...

"Some Strange Feelin'" is by Davis Coen, and is available at Mevio.com. "Our Pet Rat" is an essay published anonymously in Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Arts in 1878. I found it in Google Books. The publisher, William Chambers, was the Lord Provost of Edinburgh who was...

"Space Cowboy" is by Matthew Long and is available on GarageBand.com. The short story, "Operation Earthworm," was written by Joe Archibald and published in Fantastic Universe in September 1955. I found it at Project Gutenberg. 1000 Ideas for Creative Reuse: Remake, Restyle, Recycle, Renew (1000...