Category: What Happened Next/Later
Episode inspired stories.
Une Petite Mort (A Little Death) (by Sue)
Summary: A ‘what happened in between and next’ for one of my favourite episodes, Julia Bulette. What happened after Joe proposed and rode home and also after Julia’s funeral. How was he with his father and his brothers?
Rated: T WC 55,200
Afterwards (by GinnyF)
Summary: A sequel to the episode “My Brother’s Keeper”
Rated: K+ (2,230 words)
Hopeful (by BettyHT)
Summary: First part of the story is based in part on the episode The Hopefuls — Adam and Regina had been in love, but circumstances drove them apart. She kept a secret though, and five years later, it will cause dramatic changes in Adam’s life.
Rating T 40,282 words.
Another Side of The Triangle #1 (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Missing scenes from The Triangle, and what happened next.
Rating: K+ (5,170 words)
Another Side of The Triangle series, links to all the stories within the series 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
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)
Adam and Ruth – #1 – The Beginning (by Bonanzaluver)
Summary: This is the first story in what will be my “Adam and Ruth”series based on the episodes “The Savage” and “Truckee Strip”. Some time after they are separated by the Shoshones, Adam decides to go after Ruth and bring her home. What happens next will be the beginning of the long road of their love. Meanwhile, Joe and Amy are fighting for a happy ending of their own.
Rated: K+ (13,290 words)
Adam and Ruth Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.