I'm looking for a script where a user can submit a short story (150-300 words or less), and upon submission, the admin can approve/deny publishment of the story on the main page. Anyone know anything like this. I have searched hotscripts for 2 hours with no luck.

something similar to grouphug.us perhaps.

Since you've searched for two hours, in those two hours you could of built the system yourself :)

Basically you need two php pages, one that the user uses to submit the information into a database. Second one where the admin can approve it or delete it.

Use ENUM to mark the submission as Y for active or N for not active, make all new posts by default N, then in your admin script you display the post with two buttons one changes N to Y and the other deletes.

Look on sitepoint.com for articles by Kevin Yank, you'll then get the gist of how to build a simple system todo as you require.

it sounds a bit like Mambo, I would suggest that...