Category: What Happened Next/Later
Episode inspired stories.
Nemesis (by Inca / aka Tye)
Summary: Why did Adam disappear from the Ponderosa, never to return again? Maybe it happened like this….
Rating: T Word count: 19, 450
Crossing the Rubicon . . . Again (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: Little Joe is asked to fill in again as Sheriff of Rubicon, but surely nothing could go wrong this time.
Rating: K+ (2794 words)
Joe’s Way (by DonnaM)
Summary: A What Happened Later for A Time to Step Down.
Rating: K+ (2,350 words)
Rescuing the Stillness (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: WHN for The Stillness Within. Was it really that easy to understand and accept?
Rating: K (905 words)
He’s My Father Too (by MissJudy)
Summary: Farmer Perkins and Sam Bryant are dead and Ben is safe, yet his sons are at odds. Little Joe and Adam’s argument tears them apart, and Hoss realizes that while his father survived, the bond between his other brothers died at dawn. Ben wants to solve things but must step back to let his sons find their way back to each other.
Rating K (20,920 words)
Yesterday a Jealous Man, aka Today’s Lonely Fool (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: The aftermath from She Walks in Beauty
Rating: K+ (1,550 words)
Yesterday Series, links to stories included.
Courage (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: Little Joe is still wrestling with his fears. WHN for Season 6 Between Heaven and Earth.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 589
Little Bit Challenge – 2015
Summary: During the last quarter of 2015, members in the Brand Forums were challenged to write vignettes for all the Bonanza episodes. Members could submit as many Little Bits for as many episodes as they were inspired to write. Multiple members could submit Little Bits for the same episode. The hardest part of the challenge was to write the vignette in exactly 100 or 200 words.
Some Little Bits are dramatic while others are humorous. The submitting member is identified after each Little Bit. 132 Little Bits have been submitted to date and are listed in episode order.
Rating: K (16,000+ words)
One Scarlet Lily–Book 3 of the Lilies Series (by sandspur)
Summary: Adam and Joe leave the Ponderosa, perhaps for good, in the wake of tragedy and misunderstanding. But the danger only Adam knew about is still with them. Note: the backstory is filled in gradually, through a series of nonsequential flashbacks.
Rating–T. Contains some violence, mild language, a grisly murder scene and a couple of animal death scenes. (105,500 words)
The Lilies Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Love Wins Out (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Missing scenes for The Truckee Strip.
Rating: K (1,345 words)
Forgiveness (by Krystyna)
Summary: Repercussions, consequences, and guilt. A Missing scene from She Walks in Beauty.
Rating: (1,520 words)
The Lilies of the Valley–Book 2 of the Lilies series (by sandspur)
Summary: Adam and Tilly go to Europe for the worst honeymoon ever, landing in the middle of a war to end up missing and presumed dead. Meanwhile, Ben, Joe, and Hoss move on with their lives, finding new friends and uncovering strange secrets from the past.
Rating: T. Violence, character death, attempted rape, etc. (109,635 words)
The Lilies Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Do as I Say (by frasrgrl)
Summary: Ben has always tried to teach by example, tried to get it through to his sons how he expects them to act. But do they ever listen? A 2015 Camp in the Pines story and a WHN for Quality of Mercy. Rating: K+ (1,255 words)
A Matter of Family (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: A mistaken identity sends the Cartwrights on a race to rescue one of their own.
Rating: K (6,820 words)
A Better Man (by BettyHT)
Summary: A story to try to answer questions left unanswered in The Crucible, it begins with Adam’s attempt to leave Kane’s camp at night. The first part is a WHIB and then it will be a WHN when Adam is rescued and has to answer some questions to himself and to his family trying to understand what happened and make sense of it.
rating – T WC = 13,659