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

Summary: A fateful encounter at the river leads to a revelation for Adam Cartwright.

Rating: T  (3,471 words)

Summary:  Adam gets into a sticky mess at Halloween.  This is a fun story written for an October 2015 photo challenge.  The posted picture was the challenge – what were Hoss and Joe looking at?

Rating K   Word count = 1000

Summary:  On his way home, Joe encounters a Spring snow storm and has to wait it out in a line shack. He has a visit from an unusual child who tells him troubling things about Adam, who has been gone for years.  Adam, in the mean time has suffered a great loss and has returned home. He and Hoss head into the mountains to meet with Joe.  Joe is desperate to get to Adam when he learns from the child that Adam has been injured on his way to the shack.  The brothers reconnect but soon learn the child is part of a terrible tragedy in Adam’s life. Will Adam find healing or more sorrow on his way home with his brothers?

Word count – 8814     Rating K+

Summary:   Adam has been away at school for two years when he starts having vivid dreams about his youngest brother. He wonders why his memories center around Little Joe even while he misses his entire family. What he is about to find out will shake his certainty about many things and make him look for a clue hidden in his dreams.

Rating: K (Word Count 22490)

Summary: What is there to do on a dark and rainy evening on a fall cattle drive than to tell spooky stories to entertain each other.  Some have humor, some have mystery, and some have a bit of a fright factor.  Some may be familiar but keep reading because there’s more added.  

rating = T  WC = 11,760

Summary:  Learning bits and pieces of the past enforces a difficult lesson regarding thinking before one acts, and the need to hear both sides of a story before reacting. With the family poised to fall apart, can harmony be restored? 

Rating: T (16,235 words)

Summary:  This time of the year, halloween, horror, because of adult situations,  language and possible blood and gore l have rated it MA but it’s not too naughty…if it’s not your thing just don’t click in 🙂

Rated: MA   WC 18,100

Summary:  The brothers are pursued into Spirit Canyon where they face a powerful and unpredictable foe.

Rating k+  (8,820 words)

Summary: After Adam and Joe take an early spring ride up into the mountains, Joe comes home alone with fragmented memories and a haunting fear that Adam might never come home at all. A story told in two voices: Joe’s and Adam’s. 

Rated: T  WC  24,000

Summary: Young Adam tells his new mother about the lady in the shadows.

Rated: K+    Word count: 1141

Summary: Adam is surprised with a little night music. A story for the halloween season.

Rated: K+  Word count: 1471

Summary: A villain who thinks he’s a hero explains his “reasoning” to an incapacitated Little Joe.

Rating: MA  WC  2250

Warnings: Language & Violence—a brutal attack on a woman is alluded to but not described explicitly.

When tragedy strikes twice in as many months, the Cartwrights discover that the strength of love, the bonds of family and the sense of wholeness can truly transcend mere mortality.

Rated: K+  WC  9000

Summary: Halloween Night Fright – Adam Cartwright’s account of the conspiracy and chain of events that led up to the night of the 31st October 1852.

Rated: T  WC 2525