Summary:  Little Joe does not understand why Roy Coffee is keeping him in jail.  This story was written for the Micheal Landon Birthday Challenge 2025.   rating: rating: T/PG13   word count: 2306 

Summary: How long does it take to change a life forever? Joe Cartwright finds out it only takes a second. Written for the 2025 Michael Landon’s Birthday Challenge – pick a period of time, from a second up to a year, that changed Joe Cartwright’s life forever.

Rating: T, Word Count: 1101

SUMMARY: An older brother mourns his believed failure in keeping a promise.  Written for the 3rd Quarter 2025 Chaps and Spurs Writing Challenge. 
RATING: K/G WORD COUNT: 1,335

Summary: Based on the episode The Grand Swing, young Jamie’s thoughts are explored as he faces the shock and responsibility of crashing a wagon and killing a horse. Written for the 2025 Chaps and Spurs Challenge. 

Rated: G, Word Count: 2778

Summary: Saucy Sally has a birthday wish that will take a fortune to fulfill. How does she solve this problem? By picking some pockets of course! Written in answer to the 2025 Brandaversary R-Rated Story challenge.
Rating: MA/R (language, sexual situations & descriptions)
Word Count: 13,039

Summary:  Little Joe and friends managed to arrange “the grandest sight the town has ever seen”, and it only required a little deceit and disobeying.  This prequel was written for the 3rd Quarter 2025 Chaps & Spurs Challenge.
Rating: Teen  Word Count: 5822

Summary: Marie Cartwright comes home from assisting a neighboring woman to find …  Written for the 3rd Quarter Chaps and Spurs Challenge.
Rating: K/G
Word Count: 2,067

Sumary: Hoss teaches Joe how to play chess. Written for 3rd quarter chaps and spurs.
Rating: G Word count: 1280

RATING: MA/R
SUMMARY: Not long after Adam returns from college, he begins to wonder if he should have come back at all, as his father doesn’t seem to recognize he’s not the stripling youth he’d been when he left home more than four years earlier.  It takes a wise young woman of the world to potentially set both Cartwright men straight and help heal a rift that threatens to destroy the family. 
Written in answer to the 2025 Brandaversary R-Rated Story challenge.
(10,230 words)

Summary:  Adam and Joe go to a horse auction.
Rated:  K+ Word count: 1239

Summary: Adam carries a self-enforced burden of guilt, haunted by memories of the past that are dredged to the surface by Delphine’s death.
Rating: T (violence) Word Count: 6823

Summary: The Carwright brothers stopped in Ragtown for a bath, food, and a trip to the saloon.  They picked the wrong saloon. Of course, Opal did not think so.
Rating: T/PG13 Word count: 12,217

Summary: Unrequited affection, if not actually love, permeates this prequel tale of the Cartwrights as a church social becomes an unexpected source of disappointment and frustration for some, and wonder for others. Written for the 2025 Ponderosa Paddlewheel Poker Tournament.
Rating: K+/T Word Count: 13,275

Summary:. A missing son, a father’s search. A WHIB and WHI for The Crucible.
Rating: T Word Count: 5,353

Summary: Hoss and Joe become convinced that their father intends to marry the Widow Hawkins – and that it’s up to them to save him from this terrible fate.  A “What Happened Later” for “The Burma Rarity.” Written for the 2025 Ponderosa Paddlewheel Poker Tournament.
Rating: PG | Word Count: 8,040