Summary: Joe and Adam make an unexpected discovery on a hunting trip

Rating: M    Word Count: 16200

Joe let himself smile for half a second before sobering and shaking his head. “I’ve known you a long time and I don’t think I’ve ever seen you like this. Maybe you got this way when I was too young to notice or wasn’t around to remember, but… I don’t know, seeing you down here tonight all alone, I sort of got worried.” Or, after Laura Dayton’s departure, Joe finds his oldest brother in need of some consolation. A WHN for the “Triangle.”

Word Count: 2,316   Rating: PG

Summary: It was just an April Fool’s Day prank gone wrong.
Rating: General    Word count: 897 This was written in response to a forum challenge.

Summary: When Joe goes through old memories, it dawns on him that he hadn’t considered how different his oldest brother’s childhood was from his own. With the help of a few old trunks of treasures, Joe learns more about Adam’s past and how, despite their distinct upbringings, they both share a history that will forever be intertwined.
Word Count: 2,820   Rating: G

Summary:  Whether being stubborn as a mule or butting heads like big horn sheep, they do care about each other; and he’d waited long enough
Rating:  T  (Words:  1,120)

Summary:  When Adam invited Joe to come to Europe for a holiday, he never imagined the consequences.

Rating: T Word Count: 9,898

Summary:  When help is desperately needed, Cochise provides it.

Rating: T Word Count: 4,208

Summary: While it’s become abundantly clear that some hurts never heal, a small bullet wound and a night trapped out in the rain reveal that the scars that stick around do so with a vengeance. Every time Adam tries to take a step toward healing, his mind forces him to take two steps back. This time around, Joe is there to have his back. A WHN for The Crucible.
Word Count: 2,561  Rating: G

Summary: Joe finds an ingenious way to settle a dispute with Adam, and they are both happy with the result.
Rating: PG  Word count: 1009

Summary: After a run-in with a band of thieves, Adam and Joe find themselves three thousand dollars short and a long way from home. Things go from bad to worse when Adam realizes he might have gotten hit on the head a little harder than he’d originally thought. Finding your way home is difficult when you can’t see, though not nearly as challenging as hiding an injury from your baby brother.
Word Count: 2830 Rating: G

Summary: Joe gets himself in a bit of trouble involving a romance and a jealous husband, but Adam is implicated in it too.  The entire story is told by messages mostly between the family and Adam.  Some reading between the lines is necessary because these are men communicating in writing so not all will be said directly.
Rating: T   Word count: 2,856

What happens between the eleventh and the twelfth stroke of the clock on All Hallows Eve?  Beware!  Twelve-year-old Little Joe and his big brother Adam are about to find out.  Written for the 2021 Bonanza Brand Boo-nanza challenge.
Rated: PG for spookiness
Word count: 6,574

Summary: Joe has one drink too many at the Marquette’s one-year anniversary party, which wouldn’t have been such an issue with his father if he wasn’t only fourteen years old. The morning after, Adam learns a few things about his baby brother… and a few things about himself, too.
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 4,730

Summary: After the first grueling days of the Battle of the Wilderness, Joe comes across someone he hadn’t expected to meet during the war. Two brothers caught on opposite sides of the Civil War come face-to-face one night in an intense battle of words, forcing Joe to reconsider exactly where his allegiance lies.
Rating: G
Word Count: 1521
Part of The Allegience Series, links to all stories included within

Summary:  Adam and Joe go to War, but it’s not your usual brother against brother Civil War story.  There’s not much about war, but there is spying, romance with a little help from a brother, a tale of revenge, and suffering among other things.
Rating: T  Word count: 15,777
Part of the Choosing Series, links to all stories included within.

Summary: Adam thinks he will have to make a sacrifice to improve his relationship with his younger brother, but it is Joe who ends up doing that for all the right reasons.
Rating: T  Word count: 15,443

Summary:  While working on her latest story, an author gets a surprise visit.
Rating:  K+
Word Count:  778

Summary:  WHN for My Brother’s Keeper.  After the accident in which Adam shot Joe, Adam suffers guilt that affects every aspect of his life until Joe comes up with a way to fix that.
Rating:  PG   Word count:  1,680

Summary:  Joe and Adam have a series of altercations that have significant consequences for them and their families until they work out their differences and both make changes in their lives. 
Rating: T  WC:  30,906
This story is part of the Brenda Series, links to all stories included within.

Summary: When the stage route from Placerville becomes blocked by a rock slide, Adam and Joe decide to ride home. While crossing the old gold fields, a storm approaches, forcing the brothers to take refuge in an old mining cabin. During the night, they become ensnared in a legend that is beyond their worst nightmares, but will morning be any better for them?

Rating: PG-13 for horror. Nothing too graphic, more implied.
Word Count: 3103

Summary: To help Adam’s friend George, Little Joe has impulsively boarded a ship for Boston. Now it’s up to Adam to chase him down and bring him home.
Rating: K (97,504 words)
Links to the stories in this series are included within.

Summary: A thunderstorm brings two brothers together. Pre-series story.

Rating: K

Word count: 897

Summary: Adam goes looking for his little brother in the woods on All Hallows Eve and finds more than he bargains for.

Word count: 2497

Rated: PG

Summary:  After leaving the Ponderosa, Adam has an enlightening  encounter with someone from the past.

rating: PG            word  count: 1,999     warning: mention of corporal punishment

Summary:  Little Joe’s escapade at Jack Wolf’s Place leads Adam into a serious situation.  

Rated Strong T warning: (mature ideas and references but no explicit content, mention of corporal punishment)  Word count: 8068

Summary: Little Joe puts his lucky number to use, but will it be able to save him from trouble with his pa?

Rated: T   warning: references to corporeal punishment.    Word count: 5595

Summary: Little Joe Cartwright would never cheat, well, not at anything but checkers.

Rated: K=    Word count: 2918

Summary: Even if he did take the fifty dollars, Little Joe was not really a thief.

Rated:  K+    Word count:   2022