Summary: When fifteen-year-old Joe tries to impress a new friend on the Ponderosa, it leads to dangerous repercussions for both Joe and Adam.

Rating: T (22, 275 words)

Summary: A companion story for Tears of Growing Up.  Two years have passed since Ben and Joe stood outside the corrals watching Adam and their wranglers tame wild horses. Now, it’s finally Joe’s turn.

Rating:  K+  (2,305 words)

Tears of Growing Up Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: Ben and Hoss have a heart to heart about lost loves.

Rating: K (tissue warning)   Word Count: 1,499

Summary:  A ‘what if’ I got off the episode “Three Brides for Hoss”.

Rated: T (8,950 words)

Summary: Ezra Grady, is dead; but that doesn’t mean the Cartwrights’ troubles are over. Ezra Grady’s silent partner-in-crime has yet another scheme in mind.  (Warning:  Referenced mistreatment of a child.)

Rating:   T  (22,190 words)

In Absentia Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  Shortly after Ben Cartwright’s orphaned niece arrives in Virginia City, his neighbors are harassed by an unseen enemy.  Is it someone they know, or someone they don’t know?

Rated PG WC 18,000

Summary: Joe should have remembered his older brother’s advice, when he learns a lesson on how easy it is for women to be his downfall. 

Rating:  K  (950 words)

Summary: Adam has been gone and the family has lost touch with him. On the eve of Joe’s wedding, each of them will be thinking about their family.   

Rating = G     WC = 4901

Summary:  Adam has been gone from the Ponderosa for ten years. His family knows little of his life but then Ben decides it’s time for at least a visit. There’s a backstory to explain Adam leaving, and flashbacks to explain his personal life, and then the reunion and the results of that as old grievances are aired and new relationships are forged.

Rating = T    WC = 34,246

Virginia Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: This “what happens later” story for Thanks for Everything, Friend, picks up after Tom Wilson has been dead for several months and a woman comes to Virginia City with one goal in mind: to kill Adam Cartwright for his role in Tom’s death. She holds Adam at gunpoint as she presses her case against him, and he tries to help her see the truth before she pulls the trigger.

Rating: K   Word Count: 9492

Summary:  Adam is hurt, Hoss is missing, and Ben faces fraud charges in court. The enemy is quickly identified, but the fight against them is the stuff of nightmares as so much that can go wrong, does go wrong. 4th Adam and Leah story.

rating = T   WC = 25309

Leah Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  A young Adam has to come to terms with a second stepmother.  

Rating: teen  and up   Warning: contains corporal punishment  as part of family discipline   Word count: 45,173

Summary: A surprise assault on the Ponderosa tests twelve-year-old Little Joe’s mettle, and proves he truly is his father’s son.

Word count: 4,470. Rating: T

Summary:  Joe is given the responsibility of meeting Adam at the freight office with a load of lumber. There’s a lot riding on Joe meeting the deadline, not just for the lumber, but for Joe also.

Rating K+ Word count 5,126

Summary: The third Adam and Leah story. Ben wants to drive cattle to Salt Lake City, but Adam and Hoss object creating some tension in the family. Adam is working hard at building a house and trying to keep up with his ranch duties. Meanwhile Leah is facing some unpleasantness with women in town who are talking about her unfavorably.  

Rating = T    WC  29,984

Leah Series, links to stories within the series are included.