Category: Prequel
Any time before the episode, A Rose for Lotta
Twas the Night Before Christmas (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Christmas wishes do come true for the brothers.
Rating: K (760 words)
Inspired by the December 1st Pinecone Challenge — “Who am I? You sure you want to know?”
Lost and Found (by AC1830)
Summary: While in San Francisco with his father, ten year old Adam gets lost and is cared for by a special person. Several years later, Adam has the chance to return the favor when he unknowingly saves the man’s life.
Rated K+ WC 5877
When They Were Young (By Adams_lover)
Summary: This story is a modern day story with Adam as the featured character. It is a prequel to “Weekend Dad.”
PG-13: Very mild language and implied sexual situations (113,407 words)
Weekend Dad Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Repent at Leisure (by Questfan)
Summary: When Joe and Mitch befriend two orphaned boys and try to help them, Ben has no idea where this new friendship will lead his youngest son. It would actually prove to be Ben’s spur-of-the-moment decision that would lead to disaster. All parents have acted in haste and he just prays he has time to set things right again.
Word Count: 60,173 Rating: T
They Do Dream Things True (by McFair_58)
Summary: When 10 year old Joe Cartwright awakes screaming his pa’s name in the night, his brothers assume the young boy is afraid since their pa is away in Placerville. What they can’t know is that Joe’s nightmare is all too real and their brother’s reaction to it will catapult all four Cartwrights on a journey that will end with both their father and little brother losing their lives – unless Heaven intervenes.
Rating: K+ (41,980 words)
Sunset (by Questfan)
Summary: At sixteen, Joe was champing at the bit to be counted as a man. Until the day where his choices could have dire consequences for both his brothers.
Word Count: 33,779 Rating: T
Shoe Leather (by BettyHT)
Summary: This is a prequel in which Adam is at odds with Ben and with Hoss because of events that occur and words that are spoken in anger. A master manipulator is at work and needs to be stopped before things get any worse.
Rating = T WC = 13,369
Tears of Growing Up #3 – Learning to Trust, One Last Time (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: It’s never easy seeing your youngest taking another step towards manhood.
Rating: G (715 words)
Tears of Growing Up Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Aunt Tilda (by Sibylle)
Summary: An unexpected guest brings a lot of surprises to the Cartwright brothers. A story told by a twelve-year-old Joe.
Rated: K Word Count: 3265
Hero (by faust)
Summary: All Joe wanted was some blackberry pie; was that too much to ask for? Yet Adam and Pa didn’t seem to have any consideration for it. At all.
2660 words, rated mild T (canonical violence and a mention of blood)
What are These We Call Dreams (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Nightmares or metaphors, it all depends on the interpretation.
Rated: K Word Count: 1540
A New Year’s Renewal (by Karen)
Summary: It’s the littlest things in life and the littlest one who can inspire.
Rating: K (1,045 words)
Rites of Passage (by BettyHT)
Summary: In this prequel, Little Joe is moving from childhood to adulthood and has mixed feelings about how to react to his older brother who is facing the task of how to fit back into the ranch he left as a boy to go to college but returned as a man who is still the boss’ son.
rating = T (WC = 14,378)
For Diane (by BettyHT)
Summary: While in Waycross, someone told me that my stories are too long because she only reads the shorter stories. She gave me a prompt for a shorter story, and here is the result: A broken plate and a dropped plate lead to lessons learned.
(WC = 1090) Rating = PG
The Argument (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: Ben and Adam argue over Adam’s education.
Word count: 1,045 Rating: K+