connections in WordPress website

I have a website, kindly put together from an older one by a friend I do not wish to trouble more. You can see it at www.my-albatross.net, where you will notice a table at the left with references to various pages. Some of these pages, including Stories, themselves have lists referring the visitor to further pages. Two of the stories, “Osama at Heaven’s Gate” and “The Vixen and the Grapes” are referenced both in the Stories page and in the start page. I would like to remove the references from the start page while leaving them in the Stories page. Something is missing in my grasp of WordPress, and I am not able to achieve this. What should I do?