Author: Gwynne & JennyG
Wall of Darkness (by Gwynne)
Summary: When an accident leaves Adam suddenly blind, he and his family must come to terms with his drastically altered status. A poker game and a forest fire both have their impact.
Advisory: This story contains one scene that includes explicit sexual activity.
Rating: soft R (26,450 words)
Fourth Wife #6 – Peace on the Ponderosa (by Jenny G)
Summary: Sometimes the smallest things can solve the biggest problems, and when no Cartwright wants to go home on Christmas Eve, there has to be something wrong.
Rating: T (7,100 words)
Fourth Wife Series, links to all stories of this series included.
Adam’s Day Off (by Jenny G)
Summary: A just for fun story wherein Adam finally gets a break.
Rating: G (4,750 words)
Spirits of the Dead (by Jenny G)
Summary: Forced to overnight in an ancient burial ground, the Cartwright sons meet up with the unexpected – living and dead. A Halloween story.
Rating: T (11,410 words)
Emiline Hutton’s House (by Jenny G)
Summary: A subtlety haunting story written for Halloween. Caught out in a fierce thunderstorm, Joe and Adam take shelter in a long abandoned house where shadows of the past may still linger.
Rating: T (8,050 words)
Fourth Wife #3 – A Gunfighting Man (by Jenny G)
Summary: Ben’s family continues to grow while the older members spread their wings, and Adam meets both old and new challenges.
Rating: PG – Implied Sex (75,000 words)
Fourth Wife Series, links to all stories of this series included.
Adam and the Chain Gang (by Jenny G)
Summary: A dark story. Snake bitten on the trail, Adam is captured by white slavers, tortured by his twisted captors and sold into hard labor in Canada while his frantic family searches for him.
Rating: PG-13 Violence and abnormal psychology (48,740 words)
When the Time Comes (by Gwynne)
Summary: Deeply troubled after his return from the Civil War, Adam finds redemption in helping a Rebel seek justice.
Rating: T (21,780 words)
Fourth Wife #2 – All in a Day’s Work (by Jenny G)
Summary: On his feet again after being shot, Adam finds his new stepmother ready to give birth, Hoss suffers a toothache, Ben pays a visit to Silver City and Joe finds trouble while trying to be a Good Samaritan.
Rating: G (41,590 word)
Fourth Wife Series, links to all stories of this series included.
Fourth Wife #1 – In the Dark of the Night (by Jenny G)
Summary: Ben takes a fourth wife, but the larcenous Boxer clan proves a distraction, and a tragic misunderstanding causes even more trouble.
Rating: T (37,900 words)
Fourth Wife Series, links to all stories of this series included.
The Price of Courage (by Gwynne)
Summary: The following script was submitted to Bonanza in early 1963 by a kind agent willing to take on an unsold writer. The script was rejected as ‘well done, but too expensive in production.”
Let’s call it PG13. (19,427 words)
The Contract (by Gwynne)
Summary: Comancheros and a contract with the Army spells trouble for those on the Ponderosa.
Rating: T (16,650 words)