Seeing those stories gave me an idea.

How about having the webpage load into an intro, where these stories are laid out paragraph by paragraph, or key-part by key-part, with a picture going along with it? These frames would fade into one another, and then auto-load the homepage at the end. Of course, there would be a "skip intro" link present during this.

For what I have in mind the art would not be too difficult, but would be tasteful. If you are interested I will see what I can come up with.