Author: wx4rmk
Ponderosa Yuletide Wit (by wx4rmk)
Summary: A poem about Adam’s clever wit bringing joy and cheer during the holidays.
Rating: G (210 words)
Written for the 2025 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
Finding My Place (wx4rmk)
Summary: Jamie Hunter struggled with having a home and people who cared about him. To sort out his feelings he turns to his journal.
Rating: G, Word Count: 1323
A Mother’s Love (by wx4rmk)
Summary: For a seven-year-old, a mother’s love can come from several sources.
Rating: G, Word Count: 2442
Psycho (by wx4rmk)
Summary: A short story written for a Cowboy Lingo challenge and the Pinecone Challenge on Brand (had to use Psycho as title). It was inspired by a similar real event.
Rating: G, Word Count 500
Inconvenient Allergies (by wx4rmk)
Summary: Sudden allergies and four handsome strangers make for an interesting encounter. Written in 2nd POV for a Brand Challenge.
Rating: G, Word Count: 679
The Brightest Gift (by wx4rmk)
Summary: Adam finds an old miner’s lamp and shares the history with his family.
Rating: G 265 words
Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
Ponderosa Haiku (by wx4rmk)
Summary: No one signed up for the fourth, so this day was opened to all members in the Forums to try their hand at writing poetry for the season.
Rating: G 35 words
Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
On the Way West (by wx4rmk)
Summary: Though many people choose to write a story for the Advent Calendar, members are free to choose how they wish to respond to their prompt.
Drawn for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar.
True Meaning of Christmas (by wx4rmk)
Summary: The first Christmas with Inger brings some unexpected challenges to five-year-old Adam helping him learn the most important part of the Christmas season.
Rating: G Words 1,620
Written for the 2022 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
Hidden (by wx4rmk)
Summary: Tensions are high as a powerful snowstorm blankets the Ponderosa. However, Adam’s quick thinking brings about more than one positive result.
Rated: K+ Word Count: 2005
Enigma on the Ponderosa (by wx4rmk)
Summary: Mysterious things are happening on the Ponderosa and Little Joe is on a mission to figure them out by any means possible. Written for the 2022 Camp In The Pines.
Rating: K / Word Count: 4897
Christmas Angel (by wx4rmk)
Summary: Just when Adam thought the first Christmas without his wife couldn’t be bleaker, something magical happens.
Written for day 19 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count: 1155
When Winners Become Losers (by wx4rmk)
Summary: A simple, late summer day quickly turns more complicated than any of the Cartwrights could have imagined potentially changing one Cartwright’s life forever.
Rating: PG Word Count: 3466
Cunning Beavers (by wx4rmk)
Summary: The Cartwrights have to work to devise a plan to outsmart some crafty beavers who are causing mayhem on the Ponderosa.
Rating: K / Word Count: 1843
Recipe For Disaster (by wx4rmk)
Summary: A series of abnormal weather events one winter culminates in an unfortunate disaster that blindsides the Cartwrights.
Rating: K / Word Count: 1611
