Category: What Happened Next/Later
Episode inspired stories.
The Lady in the Shadows (by DJK)
Summary: Young Adam tells his new mother about the lady in the shadows.
Rated: K+ Word count: 1141
Between First Borns (by DJK)
Summary: Adam has a chance meeting with Clay after Clay has left the Ponderosa. Tag for “First Born”
Rated: K+ Word count: 1445
Between First Borns Series, links to stories within the series are included.
By Step, By Half, And by Heart (by DJK)
Summary: Clay sends a telegram to Adam asking him for help. This time Clay’s troubles send the entire Cartwright family down a road that could led to the destruction of Ben Cartwright’s dream or finally bring Joe’s other brother home.
Rated: T Word count: 32,335
Between First Borns Series, links to stories within the series are included.
A Lifetime of Unhappiness (by faust)
Gravely hurt and completely helpless, Adam finds himself at the mercy of a person from his past who seeks nothing but revenge. And for once, there’s no chance he’ll talk his way out of it.
In the end it might come down to who’s more determined; and Adam surely won’t give up. No, he won’t, will he?
7,500 words, rated T
On a Wedding Day (by Krystyna)
Summary: Laura’s wedding day – how does everyone actually feel about this coming marriage?
Rated: K+ (4,745 words)
The Crucible – WHN (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: This is what happens when a writer responds to a Pinecone challenge, and then is reminded how easily she could have incorporated another existing challenge that few dared to attempt. But hey, can one writer incorporate the requirements of all three challenges into one story to create a fourth edition?
Rating: T (2,290 words)
A Place to Call Home (by Patina)
Rating: K+
Word Count=5568
Summary: WHN for Return to Honor. Will Cartwright adjusts to life on the Ponderosa.
Setting the Course (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: At the end of “A House Divided”, have you ever wondered why Adam wasn’t farther along to join the cause before Little Joe caught up with him? Adam had emotionally left the night before Ben‘s encounter with Frederick Kyle and Joe in town. Me… I don’t think it had anything to do with Adam’s response to Joe during the closing scene, “That lake really gets under your skin.”
Rating: K+ (800 words)
Hoedown Showdown (by Patina)
Rating: K
Word Count=1893
Summary: The best laid plan often doesn’t play out as we’d imagined. WHN for Any Friend of Walter’s.
A Friend in Need (by Dodo)
Summary: A WHN to the episode ‘A Matter Of Circumstance’.
Word Count: 2486 Rated: K
The Shell-game Girl (by sklamb)
Summary: Ben Cartwright reminds some interested ladies–including Clementine Hawkins and Lilah Rose–that the pleasures (or otherwise) of old memories can be entirely a matter of context. A WHIB/WH(much)Later for The Burma Rarity.
Rated: K WC:1100
A Matter of Intent (by Cheaux)
Summary: A WHN for A Matter of Circumstance.
Rated T+ for subject matter. (6,840 words)
Adam and Ruth – #2 – The Darker Side of the Moon (by Bonanzaluver)
Summary: After a month of courting, Adam decides to take that pivotal step which leads them on a new adventure resulting in the wedding of the year taking place on the Ponderosa.
Rated: K+ (20,445 words)
Adam and Ruth Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
Amen and Amen (by Krystyna)
Summary: So what did happen to Will and Laura and Peggy after the wedding day? Did they ride happily off into the sunset and disappear like many other Cartwright neighbours and friends? If they did it was only after this particular adventure …
Rated: K (32,505 words)
Triple Point (by sklamb)
Summary: A chance encounter leads to dramatic consequences for two drifters and the men they rescue—Joe and Adam Cartwright. Twenty years later, “The Crucible” still casts a dark shadow….
Rated: K+ WC 55,300
