Christmas on the Ponderosa is, more or less, always the same. Yet this year, there’s a certain moment of unpredictability: there’s a visitor staying over the holidays who could jeopardise it all…or make it extra special. And maybe she even knows a better present for Adam than yet another book….

3,200 words, rated K

The Art-Universe series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: A widow arrives in Virginia City who has had connections with the Countess of Chadwick. She also has connections with someone else from the Cartwrights past that cast a long shadow.

Rated: K+ (27,915 words)

Summary:  Short light happy summer read. A vignette; a flicker; a moment in time.  

Rated: K (1,185 words)

Summary:  When is a man at his strongest? When the most comforted?

Rated: K+ (865 words)

Summary:  Another good reason to fall in love with Hoss? His good marriage qualities? A dialogue of two minds a bit unorthodox, in the hazy night of advancing years and their effects.  

Rated: K+ (1,935 words)

Summary:  A fairy tale.  Told to Hoss and his family.  Goodnight, sleep tight.  

Rated: K+ (2,305 words)

Summary:  Hoss Cartwright is invited to a tea party. Cakes and seasoning on the menu. Few minutes stolen from the ordinary day…  

Rated: K (1,575 words)

Summary:  A short story situated in a toggled Bonanza-verse where Hoss has a helping wife, this short story is a little journey to ask why Adam left, what urged him to go and why he would have been troubled. It’s a skill to love and respect, but it’s yet another skill to say farewell, to wish a happy voyage.  K for the lack of any disturbing or impolite diction; the story is much mature in its theme, though, I hope.  

Rated: K (4,955 words)

Summary:  A vignette on a married Hoss, a linguist Hoss, a philosopher Hoss who is contemplating the universe – or tidbits of it, the least. A different view, a key to interpret my longer stories.  

Rated: K+ (1,180 words)

Summary:  Continuation to the story of Borderland, though possible to catch as a stand-alone, too. Here, Hoss lives the love and the marriage he has chosen. A love story, but also a story of something more. A romance written by a person not romantic at all. Contains some mature passages and difficult scenes, and old age character death.

PG-13 is for implications of intimate relationship, and story is recommended only for mature readers who can cope with mature writing.  Rated: T (47,785 words)

Summary:   A Hoss story, of the desirable and desiring Hoss, the masculine Hoss some don’t see and others forget. Please note: description of passion, containing references to marital intimacy; sexual innuendo. For those who give space and respect to their imagination.  

Rated: T PG-13: mature situations, adult relationship. (1,775 words)

Summary:  A Hoss-starred fairytale, to reward those who always wanted to see the romantic side of Hoss Cartwright written into one story. A bit of a fairy-tale, a portion of Hoss being Hoss, a part of Bonanza and – yes, some other themes combined to that framework.

Rated: K+ (45,220 words)

Summary: Did Amy Bishop know of Joe’s love affair with Julia Bulette? If she did, what did she think of it? How did she come to terms with it once she herself was in a relationship with him?  Written in response to the ‘Missing Scenes’ challenge here on BB, and inspired by a question posed on another site.

Rated: K+ WC 7900

Summary:   Little Joe knows whom Adam should marry.  Now he just needs to make Adam realize who it is.

Rating:  K+ (19,180 words)

Remember the Breaking Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  Little Joe learns the story of Adam’s first engagement.  

Rated: K+  Word count:  1966

Remember the Breaking Series, links to all the stories within the series included.