Category: Drama
The Picker (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: “I-I’ve come to ask you for your daughter’s hand, Sir.”
Rated: K+ (1,244 words)
In the Child’s Best Interest (by MissJudy)
Summary: In this early prequel, Ben Cartwright and 4-year-old Adam stop in Cleveland where pay was good at the docks. Ben hopes to earn enough to start the final leg of their journey to Missouri, and a wagon train west. But a couple at their boarding house have plans for Adam that don’t include Ben. The story ends 26 years later as Ben helps Adam recall the ordeal and the outcome.
Rating: K (27,135 words)
You Have To Ask the Right Man (by BettyHT)
Summary: New hands play practical jokes that become increasingly a problem and their justification doesn’t sit well with Joe after Adam gets hurt. Response to October Chaps and Spurs challenge.
rating = T WC = 2870
He’s My Father Too (by MissJudy)
Summary: Farmer Perkins and Sam Bryant are dead and Ben is safe, yet his sons are at odds. Little Joe and Adam’s argument tears them apart, and Hoss realizes that while his father survived, the bond between his other brothers died at dawn. Ben wants to solve things but must step back to let his sons find their way back to each other.
Rating K (20,920 words)
He was Brave that Day (by Robin)
Summary: It all started with Hoss saving the life of a neighbor.
Rating: T (6,800 words)
Momma Liked The Roses (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: When the pain and the hurt are still fresh, can a memory shine bright?
Rating: K (1,125 words)
A Journey Against Time (by Puppycuddles)
Summary: While trying to foil a land grab scheme, Joe is wounded. Despite her own injuries, can his younger sister, Sierra, get him to a doctor in time? A sister fic, with a plot based loosely around the episodes of Land Grab and My Brothers Keeper.
Word count: 13,354 words Rating: T
Julia (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: A prequel to “The Julia Bulette Story”. It attempts to explain the apparent connection between Ben and Julia.
Rating: T Word Count: 2480
Je T’aime, Ma (by pulitzer2016)
Summary: Eleven-year-old Adam never wanted another stepmother, but now that Marie is on the Ponderosa – and six months’ pregnant – there’s little he can do but be polite and try not to think of the beloved stepmother he lost. But when Ben goes away on a business trip and Marie is injured, Adam must ride alone for help. Along the way, he realizes that things have a way of becoming precious, even when we don’t intend them to.
Rating: K Word Count: 12,446
Yesterday a Jealous Man, aka Today’s Lonely Fool (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: The aftermath from She Walks in Beauty
Rating: K+ (1,550 words)
Yesterday Series, links to stories included.
Ben and Miss Barbara (by Robin)
Summary: Between the trial and Paiutes, tensions are running high in and around Virginia City.
Rating: T (9,410 words)
Many Shades of Guilt (by Sibylle)
Summary: Guilt and mistakes – nobody is free of them. It’s not only the big guilt following bad deeds that can affect your life, but also mistakes and misinterpretations. There are many shades of guilt, as even the Cartwrights had to learn.
The story is set in 1863 and shows Adam as a substitute teacher.
Rated: K+ Word count: 10354
Bed Time #3 – Bed Time 1848 (by Robin)
Summary: It’s bed time in 1848.
Rating: K (4,420 words)
Bed Time Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Courage (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: Little Joe is still wrestling with his fears. WHN for Season 6 Between Heaven and Earth.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 589
Good Intentions (by BettyHT)
Summary: A prequel story with LJ at thirteen, Hoss at nineteen, and Adam at twenty-five. In the first part, Little Joe decides to be good for three weeks as a gift to his father which sets off a chain of events while Adam decides to ride a couple of difficult horses that sets off a different chain of events. Everything comes together as does the family in time for a Christmas celebration. The second part of the story is a WHB for The Quality of Mercy and features Seth in a prominent role.
rating = T (26,563)
