Summary: Their first little bird has left the nest, and more change is on the way for Adam and Moira.
(Part of the More than a Memory series, written for Camp in the Pines 2026)

Rating: T   Word Count: 3447

A glimpse of Adam Cartwright redux, back on the Ponderosa  after a surprise reunion in Stockton and with a family of his own.  (Third in a series, links to other stories provided)

Rating T  Word Count 1285

As Adam copes with single parenthood, his middle child experiments with gravity. She discovers that it doesn’t bend to her will but perhaps her father understands her more than she thinks.
RATING: G    WORD COUNT: 37,631

Summary: Loosely based on the Advent 2025 stories of BettyHT and AC1830 as well as the work of Charles Dickens. Many years after Abel writes to Adam about how Elizabeth’s spirit influenced him to change, Adam pitches a story idea to Dickens.
Rating: PG Word count: 936

Summary: Adam, a boat, and a storm at sea. A poem about Adam’s fever dreams while he lay ill in “Elizabeth My Love”.

Rating: K

Word Count: 482

Summary: I dug my fingernails into the flesh of my palms as the ground reeled beneath me like the deck of a ship in a summer squall. A trickle of dust and small stones rained down as the walls of the Ophir Mine creaked and groaned like an animal in its death throes. A WHIB for the episode “The Philip Diedesheimer Story”.

Rating: K+

Word Count: 755

RATING: MA/R
SUMMARY: Not long after Adam returns from college, he begins to wonder if he should have come back at all, as his father doesn’t seem to recognize he’s not the stripling youth he’d been when he left home more than four years earlier.  It takes a wise young woman of the world to potentially set both Cartwright men straight and help heal a rift that threatens to destroy the family. 
Written in answer to the 2025 Brandaversary R-Rated Story challenge.
(10,230 words)

Summary: Adam carries a self-enforced burden of guilt, haunted by memories of the past that are dredged to the surface by Delphine’s death.
Rating: T (violence) Word Count: 6823

Summary: Adam Cartwright faces danger on the Mississippi River.
Rating: PG Word Count: 2,229

Summary: A prisoner who escapes from the Nevada State Prison in Carson City has not only freedom but also vengeance on his mind. Little does he know that someone from his past is shadowing him, bringing full circle some unfinished business between them.
Rated: T Word Count: 10,050

Summary: Newlywed Adam enjoys an evening out with his wife, followed by pleasurable adult activities at home.

Rating: MA/R (sexual content) WC: 4728

Summary: Adam Cartwright and Black Bear deal out justice in Carson City. This story was written for the Chaps & Spurs 2025 2nd Quarter Challenge.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 2192

SUMMARY: Adam’s heart is set on attending a performance by actor Edwin Booth at a production of Hamlet at San Francisco’s Adelphi Theatre. As his departure date nears, he can feel himself coming down with a cold.  He knows the moment he sneezes, Ben and Hop Sing will have him confined to bed. Can he manage to hold his illness at bay long enough to not miss something he wants so very, very badly to experience?  And how much is he willing to risk in order to do so? (17,156 words)

Summary: After an extended absence, Adam Cartwright is returning home to the Ponderosa, but an overnight stop in a California town leads to an unforeseeable delay.

Rating: T Word Count: 17967

Summary:  During his last year at college, Adam falls in love with the sister of a classmate and friend.  Can he convince her that she would make him a “good wife”?
rating: T/PG13     word count: 5049