Summary: What to get someone who needs more than the Ponderosa?
Rating:    1,085 words

Written for the Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary:  A long-awaited Christmas present arrives on the Ponderosa
Rating  G

Written for the Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary:  Life hadn’t been going exactly as planned, nor as dreamed.
Rating:  G   1,530 words
Written for the Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary:  A little bit of England visits the Ponderosa
Rating:  G  1,660 words

Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary:  The misadventures of Santa and Adam.
Rating:  G  1,955 words

Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary: One stormy night, Adam seeks shelter at a house and finds a young woman living all alone. Not willing to deny their attraction for the other, passion ensues.

Rated R   Wordcount: 9, 329
SEXUALLY EXPLICIT

Summary: Adam Cartwright has more erotic encounters with the free-spirited Velvet. A sequel to Velvet Captive, though this story can be read on its own.
Rated: R Wordcount: 8,886 SEXUALLY EXPLICIT

Rated R      Wordcount: 8, 886
SEXUALLY EXPLICIT

Summary: Adam time travels to the 21st Century to visit his girlfriend. He discovers that she has been abducted by the Abominable Snowman and sets out to rescue her. A series of other fantasy elements and creatures appear in this story.

Rated T       Wordcount: 35, 488

Summary: A Saloon girl spends a very special night with Adam Cartwright.

Rated R Wordcount: 6, 055
SEXUALLY EXPLICIT

Summary: Not exactly a WHN for My Brother’s Keeper, but the action takes place after that story and involves some reflection on its events, as once again Adam finds himself pondering whether to move back East to a more “civilized” country. Rating: K+ Word Count: 2,051

Summary: Chocolate, poetry, and Adam…what more could you want for a Winter’s tale. Adam is in his final year at Harvard and visits Boston where he meets a very special young lady. WIP title: A Season of Chocolate and Poetry.
Rated: T Wordcount: 59, 991

Adam’s last weeks at college back East have him dealing with accolades, accusations, rivals, revenge, and possible expulsion.
Rating: Teen for mature references Word count: 7,942

Summary: A follow-up to The Crucible.  An unexpected visitor helps Adam Cartwright heal his broken heart before breaking it again.  A story for Valentine’s Day.
Word count: 3296
Rated: G

Summary: Just when it seems like certain scars have begun to fade, a chance encounter sends Adam spiraling back into the torment that still follows him more than a year after Eastgate. A WHN for The Crucible. Word Count: 7,332  Rating: G

Summary: Jess, George, and Sally left the people they loved, including the Cartwrights. After six long years, Jess has returned to Virginia City, running from the man who forced them out of their homes in the first place: her own father. What will happen when she meets Adam again? Will the memories of their past come rushing back, or will they be forced to face a future without each other?
Rating: K+ Word Count: 22,507

Summary:  Adam finds himself in a different world as he faces a rite of passage.
Rating:  G
Words:  8,650

Summary: Adventures in ‘riding herd’ leads one brother on a merry chase.
Rating: G
Words: 550
Written for the 2023 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary:  He only did what he needed to do.
Rating:  G
Words:  160
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar

Summary: Adam tells no ordinary bedtime story on Christmas Eve
Rating:  G
Words:  2,380
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar

Summary: It’s suddenly Christmas, and Adam has to come up with an alternative plan. The solution is quite a surprise, but one enjoyed by the whole family.
Rating:  G
Words:  2,785
Part of the Art-Universe
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar

Summary: Music may have charms to soothe the savage breast, but is that still true when Hoss Cartwright is the one singing?
Rating:  G
Words:  1,325
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar

Summary: One summer solstice night, Adam Cartwright time travels with the aid of a fairy ring to the year 1962. He meets an eleven-year-old girl and takes her to Dairy Queen on his motorcycle.

Rated G   Wordcount: 3,707

Summary: A look at Sue Ellen Terry from The Sisters. What she felt and thought during her time with Adam. Author’s Note: I started this piece as a pinecone challenge in July 2023, then I developed it a bit more into a short story.

Rating: T    Wordcount: 3,314

Summary:  Written in Response to the May 2023 – Double Drabble Prompts:  “Will he kiss me?” and “Metamorphosis!”
Rating:  Teen  (Words: 600)

Adam entertains an old flame. Could it be love the second time around?
Rating: Teen Words: 750

Summary: These are some of Adam’s brooding thoughts about events before he left the Ponderosa. It’s a rather dark tone in the story. I wrote this many years ago, and I must have been in that kind of mood.
PG   4,150

Summary: A strange, unusual, and perhaps a bit weird out-of-this-world tale featuring Adam and explaining some Bonanza events but doing so with a supernatural twist.
PG  18,319

Summary: After several failed romances, Adam claims he needs a break from romancing women. But as the saying goes, never say never.  Written for the 2022 Camp in the Pines. 

Rating: K, Word count: 10,216