Category: Prequel
Any time before the episode, A Rose for Lotta
Baby Blues (by JoanS.)
Summary: Ben and Marie take baby Little joe on his first outing, but things don’t go quite as expected
Rating: G 4,330 words
Twenty Years Hard Labor (by DebbieB)
Summary: Two years after the death of his wife, Ben is found guilty of a crime he did not commit and is sentenced to a long prison term. Left with no one to help him but his father’s close friend, Charlie Devlin, Adam struggles to keep his father’s family and his empire from crumbling.
Rated G WC 20,000
A Safe Place (by JoanS)
Summary: Little Joe finds himself in a tight spot when a new safe is delivered to the Freight Office.
Rating: G 9,365 words
Stranger in our Midst (by Rona)
Summary: The prequel to ‘Payback Time’. A college friend of Adam’s comes home with him. 12 year old Joe is jealous. Or is he?
Rated: T
(5,745 words)
Stranger in our Midst Series, links to all stories within the series are included.
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
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)
Love and Sacrifice (by WendyB)
Synopsis: Hop Sing tells the boys a story after Marie’s death.
Rating: G Words: 3,100
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)
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)
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)
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)
