Category: Ben / Joe
Stories centered on Joe and Ben
Days of Our Glory (by Rona)
Summary: Lessons are learned about change and youth and how neither are necessarily a bad thing.
Rated: T (10,585 words)
Mistaken Identity (by Rona)
Summary: Helping a friend of Joe’s almost costs the Cartwrights more than they are willing to pay.
Rated: T (11,400 words)
Wolf in the Fold (by Rona)
Summary: Joe’s nemesis returns. Will he survive this encounter?
Rated: T (9,755 words)
Only Skin Deep Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
Achilles Heel (by JoanS)
Summary: Based on the events in the episode “Between Heaven and Earth”.
Rating: G 10,440 words
The Simeon Bridge (by Wrangler)
Summary: As Little Joe lays trapped under wreckage of his wagon, he is rescued by Hoss who is lying comatose at home. He then has to convince his father that what he experienced was real.
Rated T, WC 19,000
The Color of Chocolate (by Debbie B)
Summary: Chocolate has more meaning to Little Joe than just a piece of cake. It keeps appearing in his dream and the vision scares him.
Rated G WC 9200
Love’s Last Whisper #2 – Checkmate: The Return of Bristol Ford (by Wrangler)
Summary: Three years after he had put the Cartwrights through the trauma of stealling Marie Cartwright’s casket, Bristol Ford returns with a more sinister plot than before. What he accomplishes changes the relationship between Ben and Joe.
Rating: T (66,200 words)
Love’s Last Whisper Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Borrowed Time #1 (by the Tahoe Ladies)
A What Happened Next to follow the episode ‘Bushwhacked.’
Rated T Word Count: 8550
Borrowed Time Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
Into the Present (by Rona)
Summary: A WHN for The Gift. Ever wondered what happened after Ben found Joe in the desert? Well, here’s my idea of what happened next.
Rated: T (7,920 words)
Growing Up (by Rona)
Summary: Joe has grown away from a group of friends, who resent this, and set out to make his life a misery. But when Ben gets injured, can Joe save him?
Rated: T (10,400 words)
Love’s Last Whisper #1 (by Wrangler)
Summary: Twelve years after the loss of Marie Cartwright, a man with a grudge against Ben commits the unthinkable; the desecration of Marie’s grave and the theft of her casket. Now, as a combined, yet grieving, force Ben and his boys begin their search for what was rightly theirs. Rating T, WC 40,000
To Love Again (by Rona)
Summary: Joe meets a woman in town, but Ben falls in love with her. The family are delighted – or are they?
Rated: T (9,230 words)
To Love Again Series, links to all stories within the series are included.
Gold Rush (by Rona)
Summary: Rumours of a new gold strike on the Ponderosa bring problems for the Cartwrights. But who started the rumours, and why? Can Ben find out before Joe pays with his life?
Rated: T (10,800 words)
The Smoke in the Sky (by Rona)
Summary: A fire leads to devastating consequences.
Rated: T (10,135 words)
The Best Medicine #2 – Malice Aforethought (by Wrangler)
Summary: Little Joe finds himself desperate for his father’s help to save his life after the evil doctor Steven Hale gets a hold of him and injures him in an act of revenge.
Rated: T, WC 28,000
Links to stories in the series included within.
