Summary: This story is a spin off from an episode called The Tall Stranger in which Hoss proposed to Margie Owens and lost out to Mark Connors, who married Margie and then dumped her. Hoss found Margie just before she died in childbirth.

In this story Hoss is battling the worse misery of his life as he struggles to overcome a broken heart with no hope of ever seeing Margie again. He has to suffer physical anguish, and experience other peoples direst heartache, before he can bury the past and get on with his life, find happiness and return home to his family.

Rating:  T  (21,580 words)

Summary: A story of Cartwright family love:   When Adam refuses to fight for his life…or his limb…after his Mountain of the Dead experience, (The Savage) Hoss and Joe return to the camp where they found him and figure out what really happened there. Hoss confirms that Ruth was real, but in following his Adam’s journey, he also finds truths his older brother couldn’t see. Twelve years later, Adam is a happy husband and father living in Boston at the time he travels to San Francisco where he meets his father and brothers there for a reunion. Another “unexpected” reunion sheds more light on the past.

Rating: T      Word Count: 22,384

Summary: News of his father’s death brings a son home.

Rating:  K (6,710 words)

Summary:  People have pegged Hoss as different his whole life.  Is he really that different from his father and brothers?

Written for the 2014 Bonanza Roundup 2 Writer’s Seminar.

1824 words

Summary:  A companion story for the episode, Second Sight.

Rating:  K+ (9,680 words)

Summary:  A short WHN for Hoss’s loss of Margie.  

Rating: K+  Word Count: 694

Summary:  Adam left the Ponderosa more than ten years ago; and now, a letter has arrived announcing his intent to return. This story is his, as well as his family’s.   

Rating:  T – for minor cursing.   (53,360 words)

Summary:  Missing scenes, The Trap.  A man’s belief that his wife is having an affair sets events into motion that ultimately drive Joe to challenge a lawman to a gunfight; the only way he can see to prove his innocence, of the affair and of two murders.

Rating:  T  (1,440 words) 

SUMMARY:  A time of contemplation as a man reflects on what’s happened in the past, and what good could come from any of it. —  ‘How am I gonna be an optimist about this?’

Rating:  K  (695 words)

Summary:  Her dream is a reality and now they wait for the most important delivery.

Rating:  T  (3,590 words)

The Vision Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  Missing scenes and WHN for the episode, The Triangle.

Rating:  T  (1,220 words)

Summary:  Missing Scenes and What Happened Next for the second season episode… The Gift.

Rating: T (5,095 words)

Summary:  Adam’s choices regarding his torment at the hands of a madman result in an ever-widening ripple effect. A WHN/WHI for “The Crucible.”

Rated: MA  WC 35,000

Summary:  What happens when a Cartwright loves a girl who, in turn, favors his brother?  In Season 3’s ‘The Lady From Baltimore,’ Joe fell for Melinda Banning; Melinda had her eye on Adam.  Things were brought to a head when Joe found Melinda and Adam together in a rather compromising tableau.  To head off the unavoidable clash between the two brothers, Ben quickly found some other place for Adam to be while the Bannings were still around.  But what about when Adam came home after the episode’s ending?  This story, narrated by Hop Sing, tells us how Joe and Adam came to terms with the events of that episode.  Also contains references to a character from the episode ‘The Hopefuls.’

Rated: T  WC 9300

Summary: Ben’s wife reflects on the past and contemplates a vision of what is soon to come.  What happened later for Marie, My Love.

Rating: M (Mature adult theme) (1,020 words)

The Vision series, links to all the stories within the series included.