how to list storys of a single topic outside the frontpage of a single topic

hi!

is it possible to list the stories of a single topic outside the frontpage of a single topic?

i would like to have two columns on the frontpage: one with the list of all stories from "topic a" and one with all stories from "topic b".

<-% topic.storylist %> only works on the frontpage of a single topic, and <-% storylist %> does not seem to have a parameter to sort out topics.

thanks for helping, philipp