Category: Prequel
Any time before the episode, A Rose for Lotta
The Price You Pay (by Linda Br)
Synopsis: Adam takes a 15 year old Joe to San Francisco on a business trip. On the way home, the journey goes terribly wrong, for both of them.
Rating: PG-13 Words: 17,450
Letters to Inger (by DJK)
Summary: Selected letters from those written by Adam Stoddard Cartwright to Inger Borgstrom Cartwright, deceased
Rating: G (23,775 words)
Tucked Away (by DJK)
Summary: A lost book and a lost love leads to a moment between brothers.
Rating: G (1,090 words)
Adventures Inn (by JennieA)
Summary: Little Joe gets lost in a blizzard but finds out being by himself really isn’t so bad. Features the entire family.
Rated: G (9,850 words)
Fountain of Youth (by JennieA & DebbieB)
Summary: With Marie away in San Francisco, Ben is left to the mercies of his three young sons. Will he survive or die of embarrassment first? Will his resolve stand strong or will he crumble under the pressure? Can he out think a three year old when his older sons provide no moral support and seems to always be laughing at him behind his back? Ben has asked himself these same questions more than once since Marie went away.
Rated: PG (5, 300 words)
Fountain of Youth (by DebbieB & JennieA)
Summary: With Marie away in San Francisco, Ben is left to the mercies of his three young sons. Will he survive or die of embarrassment first? Will his resolve stand strong or will he crumble under the pressure? Can he out think a three year old when his older sons provide no moral support and seems to always be laughing at him behind his back? Ben has asked himself these same questions more than once since Marie went away.
Rated: PG (5, 300 words)
Darkness Within (by DebbieB)
Summary: When Little Joe’s best friend, Mitch Devlin, betrays Joe’s most private secrets to their older friends, Joe becomes the victim of the malicious joke. Joe suffers from both the physical and emotional turmoil of the boy’s so called fun. But what really eats away at Joe is why Mitch turned his back on him. Will he ever be able to forgive his very best friend for his betrayal?
Rated: G (21, 730 words)
The Lie (by KateP)
Summary: Joe lies on behalf of a friend.
Rated: K+ (6,400 words)
The Grandest of Homecomings (by Camera Chic)
Summary: A prequel. Little Joe has been excitedly awaiting the arrival home of Adam from college, but he hasn’t considered how different things will be now.
Rated: K+ (5,690 words)
But for the Grace of God (by DebbieB)
Summary: When mad dogs attack fifteen-year old Joseph Cartwright, the family struggles with their emotions as they watch the boy, whom they love more than life, battle against the deadly effects of hydrophobia, for which there is no cure.
Rated: G (19,700 words)
All for Nothing (by Gillian)
Summary: 14 year old Adam tries to help Hoss out of trouble, but things, of course, go wrong.
Rating: G (9,350 words)
Night Guard (by Sadie Spinner)
Synopsis: A young Adam is determined to take part in guarding his father’s new herd of cattle. But is determination enough?
Rating: G (1,025 words)
A Worried Man (by Lyn Robinson)
Summary: A brother acting out of character causes another to worry.
Rating: PG-13 2,280 words
Pandora’s Box (by VickiC.)
Summary: Little Joe learns that opening a locked box can release troubles and cause all manner of problems.
Rating: PG (4,840 words)
The Canoe Trip (by VickiC.)
Summary: Adam and his friend Ross decide to take a fishing trip. To Adam’s dismay, two little brothers manage to go along, too. Of course, with a mischievous six-year-old along, the trip is not quite what Adam had planned.
Rating G (12,110 words)