Category: Romance
The Art of Mopping, Making Tea and Keeping Your Sanity (by faust)
Like so many before it, the day began uneventfully, quietly, normally. But nothing would ever be the same again.
4,250 words, rated K
The Art-Universe series, links to all the stories within the series included.
The Art of Belonging (by faust)
After a long day out in the rain, Adam longs for more than a hot drink and a hearty meal, and he knows where he’ll find it.
4,400 words, rated K
The Art-Universe series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Without Sin (by Inca / aka Tye)
Adam and Joe fall in love with the same woman, and Ben has a secret that may well tear the Cartwrights apart.
Rated: T WC 30,200
The Art of Serenading (by faust)
Adam tries to serenade The One — if she’d only let him.
1,250 words, rated K.
The Art-Universe series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Somewhere Beyond the Sea or The Art of the Impossible (by faust)
Prequel set in Adam’s college years in Boston. A formal ball, a friendly social, a red dress, a flamingo, and the sea, the sea! The beginning of Adam’s complicated love life, and, somewhere beyond the sea, someone’s first tentative steps into becoming The Queen. Can be read by itself, yet it is a part of the “Art” series, and best read after “The Art of Setting Priorities”.
12,750 words, rated K
The Art-Universe series, links to all the stories within the series included.
The Art of Giving (by faust)
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.
The Widow (by Krystyna)
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)
Glimmer (by idmarryhoss)
Summary: Short light happy summer read. A vignette; a flicker; a moment in time.
Rated: K (1,185 words)
To Shed a Tear (by idmarryhoss)
Summary: When is a man at his strongest? When the most comforted?
Rated: K+ (865 words)
An Ounce of Promise (by idmarryhoss)
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)
Good Night (by idmarryhoss)
Summary: A fairy tale. Told to Hoss and his family. Goodnight, sleep tight.
Rated: K+ (2,305 words)
Tea Party (by idmarryhoss)
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)
Farewell (by idmarryhoss)
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)
The Language That Stuck (by idmarryhoss)
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)
Borderdance (by idmarryhoss)
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)
