Category: Writing Challenges
Challenges from the Bonanza Brand Forums.
In Absentia #4 – Significance (by Belle)
Summary: After seven years apart, Ben and the boys are about to spend their first Christmas together. Too bad that buying gifts is harder than it seems.
Written for day 8 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count: 2479
Part of the Inabsentia Series, links to all stories included within
The Secret Ingredient (by mcfair_58)
Summary: On Christmas eve Deputy Roy Coffee found himself starin’ down one of the baddest desperados he’d ever come across – six year old Little Joe Cartwright. What secret ingredient did he have in his pocket to make the boy smile?
Written for day 7 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count: 3284
The First Time in Years (by ElayneA)
Summary: Adam is mending fences, not only physically but helping mend Hoss’s heart.
Written for day 6 of the 2021 Advent Challenge.
Rating: G
Word Count: 2207
Checker’s Mate (by Cheaux
Summary: It’s all a matter of perspective.
Written for day 5 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count: 979
The Gift of Giving (by faust)
Summary: Baby Joe has need of a crocheted blanket, at least that’s what Hoss concludes, and he has an exact idea who’s going to bring on one…enter Adam.
Written for Day 4 of the 2021 Advent Calendar
Rating: G 2,540 words
The Letter (by Annie K. Cowgirl)
Summary: Written for Day 3 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count: 907
Reunion – Part 2 (by Questfan)
Summary: Adam is facing another Christmas a very long way from home and family. Can Little Joe grant his Christmas wish?
Written for Day 2 of the 2021 Advent Calendar
Rating: G Words: 2850
Reunion – Part 1 (by Questfan)
Summary: Little Joe has a very big Christmas wish, but learns there is no hope it can be fulfilled.
Written for day 1 of the 2021 Advent Calendar
Rating: G
Word Count: 2900
Home For the Holidays (by Southplains)
Summary: Inspired by a Pinecone prompt.
Rating: K
Word Count: 1400
A Father’s Promise (by HarpistforHim)
Summary: Following the events of the Prime of Life, Ben thinks everything has returned to normal… until his oldest son comes to him with open wounds Ben thought had long been healed. The missing conversation between Adam and Ben from my story “Never Again.”
Word count: 3,370 Rating: G
Part of the Never Again Series, link to all stories included within.
Halloween Silly (by SJR Cartwright)
Summary: The silliest things can happen. Halloween is a perfect time for nonsense. The Cartwrights had some special guests for their dinner this night.
Rating: G Word Count: 501
Midnight (McFair_58)
What happens between the eleventh and the twelfth stroke of the clock on All Hallows Eve? Beware! Twelve-year-old Little Joe and his big brother Adam are about to find out. Written for the 2021 Bonanza Brand Boo-nanza challenge.
Rated: PG for spookiness
Word count: 6,574
Halloween of the Heart (by SJR Cartwright)
Summary: It’s Halloween night. Things happen. Some things are special. And some are very special. Share this night with a woman in love and will soon have heart’s desire come true. Alternative Universe. Written for the 2021 Bonanza Brand Boonanza Challenge.
Rating: T Word Count: 1430
Lost and Found (by Questfan)
Summary: An incident with his granddaughter brings up childhood memories for Joe.
Rating: T Word count: 4228
Missing (by Cheaux)
Summary: An unhappy brother, an old house, and a celebration gone wrong . . . this Prequel is set in 1855 when Adam is 24, Hoss is 18, and Joe is 13.
Rated: K+ Word Count: 5787
Playing Soldiers (by Dodo)
Always My Son – #1 (by Wrangler)
A Better Day, Tomorrow (by DebbieB)
A Camping Story (by BeckyS)
Journey West (by LoisB)
Because You Loved Me (by Wrangler)
A Brother’s Code (by Devonshire)
The Fourth Son (by Rona)
A Brother’s Love (by DebbieB)
More Than a Memory (by JC)
The Long Dusty Ride (by bonanzagirl)
The Promise Trilogy – #1 (by Wrangler)
He Said Not To Tell (by DebbieB)
Out of the Darkness (by Sierra Girl)
To Kill a Cartwright (by Wrangler)
Lost and Found (by Laura Brodie)
Laugh in the Dark (by EPM)