Solved my own problem

I had a lot of trouble getting this module to work. It was breaking my front page.

Turns out the Word Limit I had set inside the module was too strict -- not for my miniscule amount of text, but for the custom HTML I had put together. The Word Limit was cutting off my HTML, breaking tags which then continued to break the rest of my template.

So if you're having a lot of trouble with this, try setting your Word Limit to 999 or some other large number just to see if that helps.