Upload and retrieval of stories?

Hi all, I'm developing a site that will feature short- to medium-length stories from lesser-known authors. I have designed a page that will serve as a template, into which I will insert the material contributed from the authors. I would rather that this process of inserting content not be a manual one. In fact, I would like the programmatic solution to include a web-based administrative interface. Normally, this might consist of some forms and CF or PHP, allowing the user to upload content to a database, where the material could then also be made available to the templates for the dynamic creation of pages. However, form fields seem to have a rather small character limit, preventing one from simply pasting an entire story into them. This isn't really what I want to do anyway. Has anyone devised a good process for accomplishing something similar? Perhaps there's no reason to store this material in a database, anyway? I'd be very interested to hear your suggestions. Thanks, Steven