Could you be more specific about the stories that you are waiting on? Titles & Authors would be most helpful. A link to the portion of the site where the unverified list is that you mention would also help.
Stories are verified daily.....numerous times. I am not sure where you are looking, since the stories that are waiting to be verified are only accesible by the Mod/Story Mod staff.
♥ Listen, touch, and look around in the air and on the ground. If you watch all nature's things, you might just see a fairy's wings. ♥
I could have swore, pixie, that I was searching for stories one day and a rejected story of mine that was removed showed up in the search results. One of the rejected ones in the draft. I'm not sure if mods have any stories they never worked on further so they would get accepted but if you do you should try this for yourself... Maybe it's been changed since. I stumbled upon this several months ago. What the original poster describes sounds like this very thing. Stories that were rejected but still accessible through search or if the address is sent to someone in a pm I guess would be another way..
Also, if an author has more than one story verified in a day, if you are following them you will receive a notice for both, even if one of them is not visible on the main page yet.
Gav has been made aware. It's a programming issue, nothing more.
Google call it a PBR (a perpetual beta release).
Thanks for the feedback guys!