Summary:  A bracelet…a trinket from a time past and the memories it carried…Adam helps a young mother running from a legacy of sorrow.  

Rated: K+  (17.830 WORDS)

Summary:  A year after the worst time of his life, Adam Cartwright sees his old nemesis.  No one else does.  

Rated: K+  WC 28,000

Summary:  Joe has been kidnapped and taken into Death Valley where an Indian War rages against the white man. Adam hires a mixed heritage guide to navigate the dangers in the desert and deal with the two tribes that live there as he searches for Joe.

Rated: T  WC 19,500

The Death Valley series, links to all the stories within the series are included.

Summary:  When I read the challenge to write a “Spooky” poem or story for ML’s birthday challenge I had to think about it. What would be spooky… frightening, horrifying.

Rated: K (1,255 words)

Summary: Little Joe finds himself in trouble when he is caught stealing from the mercantile. There’s no denying that he did do it, but why? Now he must face his father and explain his actions. This was my first story ever. Warning: it does contain corporal punishment.

Rating: T  WC  1900

Summary:  Joe’s family and his girlfriend are throwing him a surprise party. But what will Joe do when he has to search for where the party is and things go wrong, well wrong to him?

Rated: K+ (2,170 words)

Summary:  Autumn is setting around the Ponderosa and with it comes a very dear and long awaited surprise.   

Rated: K+ (1,180 words)

Autumn Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.

Summary:  Adam and Joe are asked to fix up an old house for a friend of Ben’s who is about to move in to it. What they find is that there is someone or something opposed to their doing so. A little Halloween story narrated by Joe that I made last year. This is the first story I have posted anywhere but BW. Please let me know what you think!

Rated: K+ (3,200 words)

Summary:  Written in response to a Cartwriters challenge in which the first sentence was given.  While looking for strays, fifteen-year-old Joe spots some tracks that he feels compelled to investigate, despite knowing the objections his family would raise.

Rated: K  WC  1700

Summary: The Cartwright brothers fall under a powerful spell that threatens not only a life, but also loyalty.

Rated: PG / Word count: 3290

Summary:  A conflict over a woman, an impending marriage, and a murder threaten to tear the heart out of the family, but whose heart and which Cartwright?
The hangman’s noose beckons, Adam treads the road to hell as he tries to piece together the fragments of chaos and salvage what, if anything is left of his family.

Rated:  MA   (83,931)

Summary:   This story is my contribution to the 2012 Michael Landon’s Birthday Literary Challenge to write a spooky story.  On a foggy All Hallows Eve, Joe has made camp by himself. What possibly could be out beyond the fog?

Word Count: 1,686  Rated: K+

Summary:  This WHN for the Honor of Cochise actually begins when Marie tells a very young Joe that he owes his oldest brother a debt of gratitude for looking after him so well. Joe’s early attempt to repay Adam go comically awry, but finally has the chance as he sees his brother wounded in the battle with Cochise. Adam recovers from the gunshot, but struggles deeply with choices he made that put his family in jeopardy that day.

Rated: K+  WC  7200

Summary: A dark and mysterious cave, a whispering pendant, and a ruthless enemy.  It’s just an old legend, right?

Rated: PG-13 for scariness. (Well, sort of) / Word count: 3510

Summary: Left alone once again to pick up the pieces, Ben struggles to move forward after Marie’s death, and finds comfort in the words to an old song.

Rating K (1050 words)