Generate list of posts that share a custom field?

Hi WordPressers,

Does anyone know a foolproof way to call different posts into a page using custom fields?

Or put another way, how can I generate a list of posts that happen to share a certain custom field?

I guess think of it as a category archive page, except not using categories.

I’d like to use it to give creative writers a way to dynamically assemble completed stories made up of the smaller passages they’ve been posting over time.

(I don’t want to use categories because they would likely have to be the story title, which can be long and ugly and which would probably be the page title anyway.)

Thanks much,

Andrew