Category: Family
Stories that focus on the entire family
Vignettes (by LoisB)
Synopsis: A continuation of my first two stories. A collection of short stories about the early days of the marriages of Adam and Meg, Joe and Carrie. Hoss finds his true love.
Rating: PG
Words: 69,600
The Cave-in (by BeckyS)
Summary: Guilt abounds when there is a cave-in.
Rating: T (6,100 words)
Webs of Fear (by AMG)
Summary: Great loss, a small girl, and the difficult task of continuing to live. A story of misjudgement, traumas, fear, and Providence.
Rating: PG
Words: 34,600
The Time of Day (by DebbieB)
Summary: Feeling rejected by his family, Joe joins forces with an old friend of his father’s to earn him the attention he feels is being denied. When things turn out different from expected, Joe suddenly regrets his decision and now feels as if he has betrayed, not only his father but his brothers as well. Will his father find him in time, and will Ben forgive his impetuous son?
Rated: G (23,800 words)
An Unforgettable Son (by Lynnette Smith)
Story Summary: Joe sets off towards Yuma to investigate reports of his father’s death.
Rating: G
Words: 5,160
It’s A Bonanza-ful Life (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: In this Bonanza adaptation of the Frank Capra holiday classic, Ben Cartwright is facing a Christmas so bleak that he finds himself wishing he’d never been born. Enter one slightly unusual guardian angel with the offer to let him see what the world would have been like without him.
Rated: K+ WC 20,000
Season One (by Kimberley)
Summary: This is not intended to be a really interesting story LOL. More of a scene really. But I did manage to get all the first season ep titles in… and in order! 😉 Yes, at this particular moment, I had WAY too much time on my hands….
Rating: G
Words: 2,775
An Eye for an Eye (by Kimberley)
Summary: While Ben’s laid up as the result of an accident, Joe suffers a similar fate, causing the Cartwrights to wonder how accidental the occurrences really are.
Rating: Teens
Words: 8,450
Betrayal (by HelenB)
Summary: Joe feels responsible for the death of a friend and with Christmas not far away, it doesn’t look like it will be a happy one.
Rating: T (16,265 words)
Together (by Robin & GinnyF)
Summary: a WHN for “A Stranger Passed This Way”
Rated: K+ (6,330 words)
Memories and Miracles – A Christmas Story (by Larkspur)
Summary – A young Cartwright family finds that Christmas can be a time of comforting memories, new beginnings and miracles, when you least expect them.
Rating: PG
Words: 106,150
Freckles & Rouge (by JRosemary)
Summary: Adam substitutes again but a sharp, sassy student with a shocking background keeps his hands full.
Rating: PG-13 (13,690 words)
Part of the Maureen Series, Links included within
Strength (by Kimberley)
Summary: While the lives of Adam, Hoss and Joe hang in the balance, Ben reflects on the gifts he’s received from each of his sons.
Rating: Teen
Words: 3,575
An Arabic Tale (by AMG)
Synopsis : Sheikhs, Arabs, and Cartwrights in the middle of it all
Rating and Reader’s Alerts : PG; alerts depend on how vivid your imagination is
Words: 8,830
Blundered Seduction (by DebbieB)
Summary: Caught with his pants down and in a compromising situation by the one person he’d least likely want to find him as such, Joe learns three valuable lessons; no one ever died of embarrassment, chose your friends carefully, and being 16 and still a virgin is nothing to be ashamed of.
Rated: R (Has one scene with sexual content) (16,700 words)
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