Category: Drama
Out of Boredom Comes Fishing (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: It’s only been a few months since Adam left the Ponderosa; this story finds Hop Sing and Little Joe in the kitchen, talking.
Rating K (990 words)
In Haste (by pbeaking)
Summary: In honor of Father’s Day… Ben Cartwright is the perfect model of a father, but even he can make mistakes with his children. This story is about how he acted in haste. He now must rekindle the relationship with his son, Hoss.
Rating: K+ WC 3400
Lucky Eight (by DJK)
Summary: Little Joe puts his lucky number to use, but will it be able to save him from trouble with his pa?
Rated: T warning: references to corporeal punishment. Word count: 5595
Promises (by Tauna Petit-Strawn)
Summary: Adam made a promise he never really thought about during his college days. Now…he finds himself facing one fact…he has a promise to fulfill.
Rated: T (14,500 words)
Operation Barn Dance (by bahj)
Summary: Some women are worth a lot of trouble . . . but not all of them . . . (Just a short “cheesy” story :0)
Rated: Family Friendly / Word count: 2317
Written for a challenge 2013.
Words given:
Barn Dance
Fire
Horseshoe
Cheese
Operation
No Love Without Forgiveness, No Forgiveness without Love (by pbeaking)
Summary: Have you ever wanted something so badly that you’d do anything to get it? Let’s just say Little Joe and his best friend Mitch find out the hard way that sometimes finders keepers end up being finders weepers. Contains reference to corporal punishment.
Rating: K+ (4,485 words)
Phoenix (by Tauna Petit-Strawn)
Summary: This story follows “Prizes”. Suffering nightmares after his ordeal by the hands of Matsu, Adam accidentally injuries Little Joe. Fearing he’ll hurt someone else, Adam packs and goes away, leaving the family to wonder when, and if, he’ll return.
Rated T (25,140 words)
Troubled Waters Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
I’m Already There… (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: For those who believe… After an accident, Little Joe asks one very important question that only one person can answer. Is it any surprise at the response he receives?
Rating: K (2,215 words)
Looking for Little Joe (by DJK)
Summary: Two short stories that begin with Adam and Hoss looking for their missing brother.
Rated: K+ Word count: 2916
The Fire (by frasrgrl)
This story started off as just a little tidbit that I did for July’s Chaps and Spurs challenge. Now there is a mega challenge. It’s to see if you can keep a story going each month using the Chaps and Spur challenge words. Here’s my attempt at that.
Rated: T
A Friend in Need (by Dodo)
Summary: A WHN to the episode ‘A Matter Of Circumstance’.
Word Count: 2486 Rated: K
Look After The Kid (by DJK)
Summary: A Cartwright lesson in responsibility and in being the boss.
Rated: K+ Word count: 1185
To Everything, There Is A Season #3 – Togetherness (by MonicaSJ)
Summary: This is third of the To Everything series, the first, Re-acquaintance and the second Falling. Shiloh and Adam are married and are embarking on a new life together discovering that fitting all their desires in can make for trouble as her past keeps creeping in, and as they balance the opportunities that come their way.
Rating: T Reader Alert: Some violence, mild adult situations
To Everything, There is a Season Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
Ducky (by pbeaking)
Summary: This is a WHB The Burma Rarity. All we know is that Ben drew Clementine’s name from a fish bowl at a picnic prior to the episode. This story attempts to shed some light on what happened at that picnic to make Ben so non eager to be around the Widow Hawkins.
Rating: G (9,060 words)
Ben Brown (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: Ben struggles with the frustrations of middle age. Disguised as a down-on-his-luck ranch hand, he finds himself in the middle of a range war and possibly new love. Based on season 13 episode “Saddle Stiff”.
Rated: K+ (5,705 words)
Ben Brown Series, links to all the stories for this series included.
