Category: Drama
Checkmate (by Krystyna)
Summary: An evening playing chess and memories hover …
Rating: K+ (1,510 words)
War and Peace (by faust)
Adam decides to join the Federal Army and has to deal with the consequences. A story of losses and miracles, told in ten vignettes.
3,300 words, rated T
Terror of the Night (by frasrgrl)
Summary: Little Joe has a nightmare.
Rated: T (750 words)
Tea Party (by idmarryhoss)
Summary: Hoss Cartwright is invited to a tea party. Cakes and seasoning on the menu. Few minutes stolen from the ordinary day…
Rated: K (1,575 words)
Blue (by faust)
Hoss talks to Adam while taking care of him.
Ben faces the unthinkable.
And copes.
1,300 words, rated K
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (by Cheaux)
Summary: All Ben wanted was a night alone with his eldest. What he got was something quite different.
Rated: T WC 2400
A Warm Welcome (by faust)
An American in England, lukewarm beer, and haunting experiences. Is it possible to adjust with people who insist you’re from “the colonies?” Halloween story, a PS for “The Art of Setting Priorities.”
3,000 words, rated K
The Art-Universe series, links to all the stories within the series included.
A Son for a Son: Brand Edition (by freyakendra)
Summary: A man from one of Ben Cartwright’s previous lives has come to take revenge on his oldest son, Adam–but it’s Joe who pays the price.
Rated: T WC 14,000
The Polka-Dotted Cowboys (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: When an epidemic of Chickenpox and the Measles breaks out, no one on the Ponderosa is safe!
Rated: K+ (5,885 words)
Captain Cartwright # 2 – To Fly with Eagles (by Krystyna)
Summary: This is the second of the Captain Cartwright series in which Joe leaves the Ponderosa and finds true love, extreme danger and a longing for home. It also brings Adam home from sea to join with Hoss in a search for their little brother.
Rated: K (154,265 words)
“Joseph’s restless by nature, gets that from me I suppose. He wants a chance to find his own rainbow and his own pot of gold at the bottom of it. Well, this is his chance.”
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Captain Cartwright Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Farewell (by idmarryhoss)
Summary: A short story situated in a toggled Bonanza-verse where Hoss has a helping wife, this short story is a little journey to ask why Adam left, what urged him to go and why he would have been troubled. It’s a skill to love and respect, but it’s yet another skill to say farewell, to wish a happy voyage. K for the lack of any disturbing or impolite diction; the story is much mature in its theme, though, I hope.
Rated: K (4,955 words)
Springtime Memories (by frasrgrl)
Summary: It’s the day before a big event, past and present, in Joe’s life, and he shares it with someone special.
Word Count: 1,832 Rated: K
The Language That Stuck (by idmarryhoss)
Summary: A vignette on a married Hoss, a linguist Hoss, a philosopher Hoss who is contemplating the universe – or tidbits of it, the least. A different view, a key to interpret my longer stories.
Rated: K+ (1,180 words)
Brother (by faust)
Growing up isn’t easy. Two vignettes, two times in Joe’s life when he is forced to mature—and he’s all on his own. Or is he?
1,250 words, rated T
The Scent of Posies (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: One never forgets their first scent of posies…and Hoss Cartwright is no exception!
Rated: K+ (1,010 words)
