Once again, in an effort to help you as you consider the length and scope of your stories for the 2009 short story competition, here are three stories published in The Caribbean Writer: "Guyana Stories," by Marina Tamar Budhos (Volume 3, 1989), "Uncle Obadiah and the Alien," by Geoffrey Philip (Volume 9, 1995), and Ian McDonald's "Pot O' Rice Horowitz's House of Solace" (Volume 5, 1991).