I just want something like the text/html module that you can dictate either how many words or height and width of module, and it would stop after that setting and place a more button on where you could click to see the rest of the story.... This would be used like a newspaper article where you can't have the whole story on the front page..... Is there a module that does this already?

Also check the core blog module as that has the desired functionality. The most significant difference between the blog and Ventrian's News Articles is that the blog only allows one authoring account per blog - the blog being the set of topic categories you create. This makes it unsuitable where you want to have more than one author submitting stories to a single set of categories.

There are many similar modules... check on Snowcovered. DNN Masters and Orizonti to name a couple. Some can be too simple, and the image management, if any, differs all around.