Category: Drama
Emiline Hutton’s House (by Jenny G)
Summary: A subtlety haunting story written for Halloween. Caught out in a fierce thunderstorm, Joe and Adam take shelter in a long abandoned house where shadows of the past may still linger.
Rating: T (8,050 words)
Man’s Best Friend #2 – If Tomorrow Never Comes (by Starbuck)
Synopsis: Ben and Adam seek shelter from the relentless rain in an abandoned mine. When the floor collapses it is up to Adam’s German Shepherd – Zeus to find help.
Rating: G
Word Count: 4,600
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All the King’s Horses (by Julie Jurkovich)
Summary: Adam is distressed by the disorder, lawlessness, and prejudice in Virginia City after the Paiute War. When restless and hungry Indians help themselves to settlers` food and supplies, Adam is caught between defending the Indians from unscrupulous murderers and defending his own way of life to himself, and leaves his family hanging in the balance.
Rating: PG (45,050 words)
A Peep Came this Way (by Robin)
Summary: Pa should have known better than to let Jamie run an errand. A WHI for A Stranger Passed This Way.
Rating: T (13,480 words)
Did I? (by Starlite)
Summary: Adam has been shot, did Little Joe do it?
Rated: PG (10,950 words)
Farewell (by Starlite)
Summary: Adam deals with the loss of two of the most important people in his life.
Rated: G (5,600 words)
Almost 13 (by Starlite)
Summary: Little Joe learns a family secret about his mother and Adam.
Rated: PG (9,400 words)
The Visit (by Starlite)
Summary: Adam’s Grandfather comes to the Ponderosa for a visit.
Rated: PG (7,950 words)
Elegy for a Cartwright (by Starlite)
Summary: A continuation of ‘Elegy for a Hangman’.
Rated: PG (6,500 words)
Who’s Child Is This? (by Starlite)
Summary: It’s Christmas on the Ponderosa and the Cartwrights have an unexpected visitor.
Rated: G (5,950 words)
Second Chances (by Starlite)
Summary: Ben brings Marie to the Ponderosa, and causes a rift between him and his young son. Will Adam ever forgive him?
Rated: G (12,150 words)
The Babysitter (by Helen A)
Summary: The family has to deal with jealousy as Hoss suffers through the Middle Child Syndrome.
Rating: K+ (11,290 words)
Too Good a Day (by Starlite)
Summary: How do the Cartwrights enjoy a nice spring day?
Rated: G (2,050 words)
Lessons Learned (by Starlite)
Summary: After a harmless prank goes awry, Little Joe learns a lesson about responsibility.
Rated: G (13,680 words)
Up in Smoke (by Starlite)
Summary: One of the Cartwright sons learns about the evils of smoking.
Rated: G (9,500 words)
