Summary:  Will Ben risk the life of one son to save another?

Rated: K (10,700 words)

Summary:  Ben decides to update his will, which causes his sons some anxiety

Rated: K (10,855 words)

Summary: A hot day, a melting pig, and Joe wants to know about the birds and the bees.

Rating:  G  (1,390 words)

The Cartwrights have come to San Francisco to negotiate a contract and enjoy a relaxing family vacation together. All thoughts of relaxation fly right out the window when two family members and a friend go missing, and the police are infuriatingly indifferent. A WHN for “San Francisco” and “The Mountain Girl.”

Rating: T (58,600 words)

Bloodlines Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: This is the second part of the story about Abbie who first appeared in the story Like a Phoenix Rising which ended with her married to one of the Cartwrights … this part reveals which Cartwright was her husband and what happened to them.

Rating:  PG  (20,000 words)

Like A Phoenix Rising Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  Joe can’t help showing off, carrying the mail for the Pony Express. But he’d never do it if Pa were watching….A missing scene for “Ride the Wind.”  
Rated: K+ (1,850 words)

Summary:  What goes through the mind and hearts of a father and two of his sons as they stand together before the grave a man much loved, and taken from them much too soon?  Warning … character death.

Rating:  K+  (1,900 words)

Rating: K

Word Count=5902

Summary: When 16-year old Adam falls asleep at the supper table after a hard week’s work, Little Joe is convinced his brother has been put under a spell by a witch.

Synopsis: A careless act of Little Joe’s puts his life in danger and that of his beloved horse Cochise  

Rating:  G  (19,000 words)

Summary:  Adam prepares to apply for Harvard. Rating:  K+  (37,050 words) Pride Comes Before A Fall Hoss Cartwright flattened his nose against the glass and opened his eyes wide as he surveyed all the wonderful items in the store window. “Hey Joe!” he shouted. “Come and look at all these things!”…

Summary:    An ill wind invades the Ponderosa, leaving the Cartwrights unable to take care of themselves while Hop Sing is away. Rating:  K  (16,900 words) An Ill Wind   Ben straightened up to ease his aching back and turned to face Bert. “It seems like the chores around here…

Summary:  Young Adam hated Lila Jane for over four years, two months, and seventeen days before an accident changes their relationship.

Rating: T   Word count: 41,129 Warning: corporal punishment as part of family discipline

Summary: Ben Cartwright lies on what may be his deathbed, near comatose from raging fever.  What thoughts go through the heads of those who love him most as they try and come to grips with the prospect that his time with them may be at an end?  

Rating  K+ (13,255 words)

Bloodlines Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  It’s time again for Joe’s annual letter to Santa Claus, this time based on the events represented in the second season of Bonanza.  From Jennifer Beale to Ellie McClure and beyond, Little Joe is still having trouble dealing with the opposite sex and remains in great need of Santa Pa’s advice.

Rated: K+  WC 3800

Dear Santa Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary and Explanation: I never thought I would write a WHN story for “Interlude”, and I haven’t. Not really. What happened is that I could not not write, and I guess this is what came out of it. These are vignettes that give little glimpses into Adam’s life during the war, some are scenes that may have taken place during “Interlude”, as well as some that happen “after”. I’m not sure I ever find the time to write enough scenes to make this into “a real story” at one time, yet here they are, in no particular chronological order, just so I have them all in one place. One never knows what may happen.

Rating: K+   Words: 13562

Interlude series, links to all the stories within the series included.