Summary:  When is a man at his strongest? When the most comforted?

Rated: K+ (865 words)

Summary:  Another good reason to fall in love with Hoss? His good marriage qualities? A dialogue of two minds a bit unorthodox, in the hazy night of advancing years and their effects.  

Rated: K+ (1,935 words)

Summary:  A fairy tale.  Told to Hoss and his family.  Goodnight, sleep tight.  

Rated: K+ (2,305 words)

Summary:  Hoss Cartwright is invited to a tea party. Cakes and seasoning on the menu. Few minutes stolen from the ordinary day…  

Rated: K (1,575 words)

Summary:  A short story situated in a toggled Bonanza-verse where Hoss has a helping wife, this short story is a little journey to ask why Adam left, what urged him to go and why he would have been troubled. It’s a skill to love and respect, but it’s yet another skill to say farewell, to wish a happy voyage.  K for the lack of any disturbing or impolite diction; the story is much mature in its theme, though, I hope.  

Rated: K (4,955 words)

Summary:  A vignette on a married Hoss, a linguist Hoss, a philosopher Hoss who is contemplating the universe – or tidbits of it, the least. A different view, a key to interpret my longer stories.  

Rated: K+ (1,180 words)

Summary: One never forgets their first scent of posies…and Hoss Cartwright is no exception!  

Rated: K+ (1,010 words)

Summary:  Continuation to the story of Borderland, though possible to catch as a stand-alone, too. Here, Hoss lives the love and the marriage he has chosen. A love story, but also a story of something more. A romance written by a person not romantic at all. Contains some mature passages and difficult scenes, and old age character death.

PG-13 is for implications of intimate relationship, and story is recommended only for mature readers who can cope with mature writing.  Rated: T (47,785 words)

All characters, settings, and events are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot belong to me, the ones known from Bonanza belong to their rightful owners and creators.  

Rating T WC 1700

Summary:   A Hoss story, of the desirable and desiring Hoss, the masculine Hoss some don’t see and others forget. Please note: description of passion, containing references to marital intimacy; sexual innuendo. For those who give space and respect to their imagination.  

Rated: T PG-13: mature situations, adult relationship. (1,775 words)

Summary:  A thought of how it would feel to marry in the Cartwright Clan; a short story of the eyes that see through more than their lenses.  

Rated: K+ (1,350 words)

Summary:  A Hoss-starred fairytale, to reward those who always wanted to see the romantic side of Hoss Cartwright written into one story. A bit of a fairy-tale, a portion of Hoss being Hoss, a part of Bonanza and – yes, some other themes combined to that framework.

Rated: K+ (45,220 words)

Rating: K

Word Count=2666

Summary: At six years old, Hoss finds himself to be the middle child instead of the baby. Not quite old enough to be responsible but not quite young enough to be thought of as a baby anymore.

Summary:  I was thinking about how due to Dan Blocker’s death the Cartwright’s lost Hoss. This short piece came to me and I had to write it down.

Rating:  K (540 words)

Summary: This is the third of the four stories revolving around Adam’s Bible (the Bible Elizabeth had used when she was young.) The Bible was thought ruined in The Book of Joseph, but was restored in The Book of Ben, and is now ready to be sent to Adam in Boston. Ben tells his middle son that he should write Adam a letter to enclose along with the Bible. But after Hoss has a particularly miserable day tending his sick brother and father, he pens a letter to Adam letting him know exactly how he feels.

It is not necessary to read the other stories to enjoy this one. Each book provides a look at love and lessons learned in the young Cartwright family. Thank you for reading.

Rating: K  (6,565 words)

A Circle of Family series, links to all the stories within the series included.