Category: Action/Adventure
Though She Be But Little (by McFair_58)
Summary: A slight mishap brings the old Indian blanket that hangs on the stair rail to Joe Cartwright’s attention. His questions bring odd looks and just a little bit of pain. When his Pa breaks down and tells him the story of how the blanket came to be there and what it means, Joe realizes he will never look at his mother the same way again.
Rated PG-13
Word count: 17,653
The Squirrel’s Stash #3 (by Questfan)
Summary: A few more Pinecone Challenges for my pet squirrel to gnaw on. Each chapter has a lyric prompt and had to be no more than 500 words.
Word Count: 8885 Rating: T
A Cold Day in Hell (by McFair_58)
Summary: Twenty-one year old Hoss Cartwright has a problem. Older brother Adam just took off into the desert without a word and Little Joe wants to follow him. Pa will have his hide, he knows. But it’s awful hard to say ‘no’ to Little Joe…
Rated PG
Word count 21,317
Another Stranger In Town (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: This is the crossover story for the August 2018 challenge — Adam goes to Dodge City and meets the cast of Gunsmoke in a WHN for the episode of that series, A Stranger In Town.
rating = T word count = 8046
Another Stranger in Town Series, links for all the stories of this series included.
Somethin’ Worth Fightin’ For (by AC1830)
Summary: Written for the 2018 Missing Man Challenge – Add Adam into an episode after Season 6 as if he has always been there. I chose The Fighters, Season 7, Episode 30.
Rating – T, Word Count – 4662
The Scales of Justice (by Questfan)
Summary: Written for the 2018 Missing Man Challenge – Add Adam into an episode as if he has always been there. I have chosen an episode from Season 12:6, Gideon the Good.
Rated: T Word Count: 8,148
A Worried Man (by BettyHT)
Summary: It’s an Adam has left the Ponderosa for adventure and finds a romance story, but like any Adam story, there are always complications. Adam is in Boston pursuing a dream, but there are obstacles including corruption, pressure, and conflict. He does gain friends who will be his allies and…
I Met a Friend of Yours Today (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: When Joe Cartwright drags Candy over to the doctor’s office after a bar fight, he bumps into one of Hoss’ old friends.
Rated: K+ for brief mentions of violence Word Count: 1,189
Home is the Sailor #5 – No Greater Love (by Krystyna)
Summary: Murder and an accused, and trouble in town. But is all as it appears. Fifth in the Home is the Sailor Series.
Rating: T (201,700 words)
Home is the Sailor Series, links to stories of this series included.
A Debt of Honour (by Questfan)
Summary: My entry for BoNaNo 2017. A trip back from Sacramento takes a deadly turn and Joe is separated from his brothers. Believing he caused their deaths and left traumatised, Joe is picked up by a father and daughter who are heading for California.
Rating: T Word Count: 23,769
The Biggest Miracle of All (by McFair_58)
Summary: Just before Christmas Ben Cartwright makes a choice he will soon regret. He allows his twelve-year-old son, Joseph, to help the young woman who is filling in for Abigail Jones over the holidays find her way home. Little does Ben know that the blue sky of morning will soon become the deep gray of an approaching snow storm, and that his son and his teacher will need a miracle to survive.
Rated: PG-13 Word Count: 12,321
Mark of the Devil (by A_Starry_Night)
Summary: The struggle to be left-handed is a very real one, but Little Joe Cartwright is going to meet his greatest adversity against it when an old mountain man crosses his path.
Rating: T Word Count: 18,617
Thirty-Six Ways to Get Out of Trouble (by McFair_58)
SUMMARY: Continuing the story of Ben and Rosey O’ Rourke. In this sequel to ‘Keep Your Eyes on the Sun’, things seem normal at the Ponderosa ranch. Ben, Adam and Hoss are hard at work and Little Joe is in trouble. What Joe’s family cannot know is that his trouble will soon draw them into a war that will end only when the victor possesses an ancient Chinese stone that, unbeknownst to them, has come to the Ponderosa.
Rated PG-13 for typical western violence and bad guy brutality.
Word count: 83,100
Blood and Bread Series, links to stories of this series included.
The Lantern Man (by McFair_58)
Summary: That baby brother of his, he could talk him into anythin’. They shoulda been home, but instead they ended up campin’ out near 13 year old Little Joe’s little gal’s house. All would have been well and good if’n only Joe’d have stayed put. But this was Joe and he didn’t. When he asked him how come, his baby brother said he didn’t know.
Was it a nightmare, Hoss wondered, that called Little Joe out into the mist and got him nearly drowned?
Or was it somethin’ else?
Rated PG
7, 666 words
The Squirrel’s Stash #2 (by Questfan)
Summary: Some more Pinecone Challenges for my pet squirrel to chew over. Each chapter has a lyric prompt and had to be no more than 500 words.
Word Count: 6315 Rating: T
