Category: Drama
Reflections (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: A series of episode based reflections and life lessons by the Cartwrights.
Rating: T Word Count: 5923
Bloodlines (by AC1830)
Summary: This is a what-if story for Halloween. Adam’s son loves to read. After reading a forbidden book, he discovers a dark family secret.
Rating – T, Word count – 1949
The Outlaw Brother (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam finds himself in dire straits and needs help to extricate himself, but he has to flee to avoid worse trouble. He makes a friend but manipulation takes from him something he had hoped never to lose. His family worries about him and wonders if he will keep his promise to come home one day.
Rating = T WC = 25,590
Snake in the Grass (by Patina)
Summary: Paradise is almost gained for one Cartwright.
Rating: T. Word count 761
Night Watch (by Cheaux)
Summary: Musings of Deputy Clem Foster on his city and the Cartwrights.
Rated: K+ Word Count: 1238
Perspectives (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: Adam and Ben’s thoughts on a special day in Adam’s life.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 509
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 Measure of a Man (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: Six year-old Little Joe gets into trouble and has a lesson to learn.
Rating: K Word Count: 1698
A Dish Best Served (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: The course of true love rarely runs smoothly for any Cartwright, especially when a vindictive father and son are determined to punish the one they hold responsible for their personal tragedy.
Rated: T Word Count: 70,950
A Brother’s Heartache (by AC1830)
Summary: In She Walks in Beauty, Regan Miller nearly destroyed two brothers’ relationship. So what happened from the time when Hoss nearly beat Adam to death to when they reunited in Virginia City? A missing scene, or two, for She Walks in Beauty.
Rating K+, Word Count 1430
When Angels Cry (by JC)
Summary: The arrival of a range detective in Virginia City means trouble for Adam in more ways than one. (A WHI for The Flannel-Mouth Gun, part of the Ties That Bind AU series)
Rating: T (13,258 words)
Ties That Bind Series, links to stories of this series included.
One Very Smart Dog (by Tampa)
Summary: It doesn’t take long for a stray dog to win the Cartwrights’ hearts, and one tough Cartwright in particular.
Rating: G, Word Count: 2420
A Gift (by BettyHT)
Summary: How do the three Cartwright sons react to the plight of a young woman who needs a Man of Steel? The issue arises when Joe brings home the ad from The Soiled Dove Society.
This is a sexually explicit story. If that offends you in any way, do not continue to the story.
rating = MA word count = 2025
Lay Her Down (by EROS)
Summary: How does a Cartwright react when The Soiled Dove Society goes on the hunt for a man of steel?
This story is sexually explicit; readers who are easily offended should not continue to the story
Rated: MA (2,320 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
