Category: Drama
Fruity Thoughts (by idmarryhoss)
All characters, settings, and events are the property of their respective owners. The original characters and plot belong to me, the ones known from Bonanza belong to their rightful owners and creators.
Rating T WC 1700
It’s Only a Year – The Final Trial – A Lesson in Mettle #5 (by MissJudy)
Summary: The final episode of the prequel series, It’s Just a Year. Adam has remained home for a year longer than he’d planned before heading for college. In that time, he’s been hazed, poisoned, almost killed and now we find him healthy and camping with Hoss for a final brother’s weekend before leaving for Boston. The idyllic time takes a ominous turn when Adam realizes that someone’s been watching their camp and must soon face his worst fears again and save his brother from the same fate. As with all theses stories, this can be read without reading the others first. This concluding episode brings the two oldest Cartwright boys together for some defining moments.
Rated: K+ WC 17,000
It’s Only a Year Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
A Moment Before Leaving (by MissJudy)
Summary: This WHN for A Journey Remembered looks at a “missing page” from the journal chronicling the journey West with Inger. After reading the story to Hoss while they waited for a horse to foal, Ben finds evidence of a page that was removed and remembers that it’s kept with personal papers. When he finally has a chance to do so, he rereads the missing page and recalls what he witnessed the night after Inger died.
Rated: K+ WC 2600
Seeking Shelter (by idmarryhoss)
Summary: A Hoss story, of the desirable and desiring Hoss, the masculine Hoss some don’t see and others forget. Please note: description of passion, containing references to marital intimacy; sexual innuendo. For those who give space and respect to their imagination.
Rated: T PG-13: mature situations, adult relationship. (1,775 words)
Reminiscence of My Special Place (by idmarryhoss)
Summary: A thought of how it would feel to marry in the Cartwright Clan; a short story of the eyes that see through more than their lenses.
Rated: K+ (1,350 words)
The Grizzly and God’s Hands (by freyakendra)
A day at the lake with his brothers is shattered by gunfire, leaving Joe in God’s hands. Follow Joe’s muddled thoughts through his family’s struggle to keep him alive, and his own struggle to focus on where he belongs.
Rated: K+ (6,505 words)
Dreams (by Dodo)
Summary: A WHN For My Brother’s Keeper
Rated: K+ Word Count 9000
Trust (by frasrgrl)
Summary: After being injured, Joe questions his belief in trust and second chances.
Word Count: 968 Rated: K+
GAMES Book I: The Game (by freyakendra)
Summary: A old college rival of Adam’s takes competition to an extreme, playing chess with Cartwright lives. SJS, SAS, JAM, ESA, ESH…let’s just say lots of hurt, comfort, angst and mystery. I
Rated: T. WC 29,000
Games Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Letting Sleeping Dogs Lie (by Dodo)
Summary: Home alone and Joe finds himself facing a heart-searching dilemma.
Rated: K Word Count: 7267
It’s Only a Year – The Quiet of Uncertainty – A Lesson in Hope #4 (by MissJudy)
Summary: 17 year-old Adam has been in his first gunfight and although his wound seemed minor, it worsened as he continued to work, until he lost so much blood that he was near death. We now find out what happerned that night and who helps to heal a family wrought with sadness, guilt and decisions. there is no need to read the previous stories to enjoy this one. A young Abigail Jones makes her first appearance and Hop Sing makes a friend.
Rated: K+ 15,000
It’s Only a Year Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Shadows (by freyakendra)
Summary: Men who hide in shadows can be the worst kind of monsters, as Joe discovers one night when he’s home alone.
Rating: T Word Count: 13,500
It’s Only a Year – The Worst of Consequences – A Lesson in Choice #3 (by MissJudy)
Summary: 17 year old Adam has proven himself to the Ponderosa ranch hands after a summer of hazing, and is finally enjoying his his last year home before leaving for school. But his life takes a dramatic turn when he is menaced by a new addition to the crew, and must decide whether the man is serious in his sinister intent, or it’s just another attempt to test his mettle. Once Adam decides which it is, he makes choices that bring him into conflict with his father and lead to the worst of consequences.
Rated: K+ WC 16,000
It’s Only a Year Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
A Prayer in the Night (by MissJudy)
Summary: Ben stands vigil as thirteen-year-old Adam lies near death with a raging fever. The father blames himself and questions his ability as a parent while offering a prayer to give his own life to spare his son’s. A stranger helps Ben face his fears and understand that parenthood takes courage and help from unexpected places.
Rated: K+ WC 4600
The Hostage (by Camera Chic)
Summary: Just a very short story about what one brother would do for the other one.
Rating: PG for violence (1,650 words)
