Summary: An exploration of perhaps the most controversial subject in Bonanza fanfiction — what if Ben and Marie also had a daughter? But this is not a story about a Cartwright sister.  Though viewed through a different lens, it’s a story about a family we all know and love, whose relationships are tested and reaffirmed in the face of the inevitable.  

Rating: K+ (27,784 words)

Ties That Bind Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: A conversation between brothers returns Ben to a time in the past.

Rating:  T   Word Count:   4,135

Summary:   When Adam, Hoss and Little Joe sneak out in the early hours for Adam’s last childhood adventure, their father’s reaction is not what they expect.   A prequel set in the months before Adam leaves for college.

Rating: K   Word Count: 3,527

Summary: Adam and Joe are caught in a cave in. Adam is not amused.

3,937 words, rated K+

Summary: I’ve been playing in the Pinecone Challenge for a while and decided to post the collection here. Each chapter has a lyric prompt and had to be no more than 500 words.

Word Count: 5205 Rating: T

Summary: A missing child brings together the Coffees and the Cartwrights, as well as a young Dr. Paul Martin.

Rating: K+ WC: 28,370

Summary: Little Joe once again draws inspiration from his favorite dime novels when he is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Rating:  K+   Word count 15,138

The Deadeye Kid Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  Twelve-year-old Little Joe is late for supper. Hop Sing is hopping mad and Adam is none too pleased. When he heads for the stable to look for his brother, Adam expects an argument – what he gets is something else entirely. Something that begins in terror and rolls on toward tragedy. Will the Cartwrights ever be the same?

Rated PG-13  (92,480 words)  Rating assigned for typical standard episodic TV Western violence and brutality.

Blood and Bread Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  Young Hoss and Joe have decided that Ben deserves a day off so they plan a special day with him, but Ben soon discovers it’s more special than anyone anticipated.

Rating K  Word Count 678

Summary:  Six vignettes and a poem giving glimpses of Ben Cartwright’s youngest.

Rating: General   Word count: 2,412

Ben’s Boys Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  Ten year old Joseph Cartwright has been assigned a project by Miss Jones to write a paper about his mother. The trouble is, he’s not quite sure what he knows so he asks for her help.

Rated G  (2,100 words)

Summary: Lost in grief following Marie’s death, Ben is jolted out of his despair.

Rating: K+ WC: 871

Summary:  Gossips sour Ben’s mood when he returns from a business trip; and he only wants to hear an explanation direct from the guilty party.

Rating:  T  (1,455 words)

Summary:  Adam didn’t lie to his father, but Marie wasn’t so sure that her stepson wouldn’t lie to her.

word count: 1407 Rating  PG for references to mature subjects and corporal punishment

Summary: Ben is enjoying a hunting trip with Adam when it takes an unexpected turn and forces a detour to the cabin in the woods where the Cartwrights first lived and trapped on the Ponderosa. Adam has not been there since he was a child, and Ben is filled with trepidation over how his son might remember those days. All seems well, even though a few of Ben’s memories leave him wondering what his son is thinking. Then a vivid dream about a incident from Adam’s childhood leaves him thoroughly shaken, and he finally finds out just what Adam thought of his early years on the Ponderosa. This story occurs a year after Adam got back from school in Boston.

Rating: K  Word Count: 20,876