Category: Humor
What are These We Call Dreams (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Nightmares or metaphors, it all depends on the interpretation.
Rated: K Word Count: 1540
Seasons Of Change (by Adams_Lover)
Summary: Seasons of Change is a continuation story from Weekend Dad, a modern day Bonanza story featuring Adam. The story begins ten years after the end of Weekend Dad, and Jason is getting ready to head to college. The story will continue the four years Jason is in college until he graduates. There will be many references to the Weekend Dad story, so if you have read it before, you will understand them when you read them in this story.
PG-13: Very mild language and implied sexual situations (201,225 words)
Weekend Dad Series, links to stories within the series are included.
One for the Ages (by Justafan)
Summary: A story of a friendship that ran deeper than blood.
Rating: K (537 words)
Strong, Yet Sensitive on the Comstock (by Robin)
Summary: A behind the scenes look at the second longest running western series, Bonanza.
Rating: T (2,250 words)
Studio Executives #2 – Little Joe Cartwright’s Very, Very, Very Bad Day (by pjb)
Summary: The ever-helpful Cartwrights come to the aid of studio executives who need to develop a special episode for Sweeps Week.
Rated PG-13 (or whatever the Brand equivalent is) Word count: 3,175
Studio Executives Series, links to all the stories included within.
Another Fine Mess (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: Little Joe thinks he’s found the perfect way to raise money to help Virginia City’s needy orphans, while providing a few side benefits for himself and his friends. Originally published in Bonanza Gold.
Rating: K (7,470 words)
The Dead Mule Story (by Robin)
Summary: With these three sons, this tale should never have been told. They’re your sons, Ben.
Rating: T (1,225 words)
The Intruder (by Arien)
Summary: An intruder finds his way to the Ponderosa.
Rating: K (570 words)
The Misadventures of Little Joe Cartwright ~ Book I (by bahj)
Summary: After going into town to buy a present for Hoss, Little Joe runs into a mysterious stranger with a bag of golden coins.
Rating: T Word count: 29698
Part of the Misadventure Series, links to all stories included within.
Damsels in Distress (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: Thanks to the machinations of a conniving editor, Ben finds himself besieged by needy females in a town whose male population has been ravaged by accidents and disease. (Originally published in the first issue of Bonanza Gold)
Rating: K ( 7,429words)
Bull (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam has an embarrassing misadventure he would rather not discuss, and his father has a reason to support him in that decision. The two do share their information with each other however.
Rating = T WC = 3969
Valentine Nightmares (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: A light-hearted look at the Cartwright men struggling with the upcoming Valentine’s Day dance.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 667
Pride and Ponderosa (by Sandspur)
Summary: What happens when Jane Austen’s ultimate chick-fic, “Pride & Prejudice,” crosses into the burly, macho, he-man world of Bonanza? Confusion? Kidnappings? Crossover characters from other series like “Bronco” and “the Big Valley”? Anything can happen—and anything does!
Rating: T. Totally clean, but one description of an unseemly death. WC 86,200
“Neked” Women (by Robin)
Summary: Did Little Joe really see what he thought he saw? Adam can’t believe the implications of Joe’s revelation.
Rating: T (3,800)
Little Bit Challenge – 2015
Summary: During the last quarter of 2015, members in the Brand Forums were challenged to write vignettes for all the Bonanza episodes. Members could submit as many Little Bits for as many episodes as they were inspired to write. Multiple members could submit Little Bits for the same episode. The hardest part of the challenge was to write the vignette in exactly 100 or 200 words.
Some Little Bits are dramatic while others are humorous. The submitting member is identified after each Little Bit. 132 Little Bits have been submitted to date and are listed in episode order.
Rating: K (16,000+ words)