> I'm trying to download all the resources that match the
> following:
> 
>    <http://www.somesite.com/read.jsp?story=1>
>    <http://www.somesite.com/read.jsp?story=2>
>    <http://www.somesite.com/read.jsp?story=3>
> 
> etc.

You will need a list of URLs to all the pages you want to download... unless
you are mirroring the site these come from.

If there is a page with a complete list of links to the stories, you could try
to capture only the stories using a filter along the lines of:

+*/read.jsp?story=*[0-9]
+*/read.jsp?story=*[0-9]*[0-9]

I have not used that myself, but it is mentioned in the Fred Cohen guide in
the HTTrack website help.