Category: Writing Challenges
Challenges from the Bonanza Brand Forums.
For Honor (by Sibylle)
Summary: The consequences of a fight at school. Prequel (1854)
Rated: K+ WC 600
Little Girl in Pink (by Sibylle)
Summary: Adam meets a little girl on the road to Virginia city that he better never found.
Rated: T WC 600
Home Alone (by Sibylle)
Summary: Hoss and Joe alone at home. A prequel
Rated: K WC 600
The Shell-game Girl (by sklamb)
Summary: Ben Cartwright reminds some interested ladies–including Clementine Hawkins and Lilah Rose–that the pleasures (or otherwise) of old memories can be entirely a matter of context. A WHIB/WH(much)Later for The Burma Rarity.
Rated: K WC:1100
Dah-Gey: A Fable Told by Hop Sing (by JoaniePaiute)
Summary: An extremely silly response to a Chaps & Spurs challenge. Also partly inspired by the thread “Feminizing the Cartwrights.” Little-Little Joe is driving Adam crazy. Hop Sing has the solution: it’s story time!
Rated: K WC 1400
Last Chance (by Cheaux)
Summary: Joe gambles with his life to give his Pa something precious.
Rated: K WC 900
Try the potato salad. It’s delicious. (by mumu74)
Summary: Seedlings Challenge, May 5, 2014
1,006 words Rated: K WC 1000
The Vision #1 (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Ben’s wife reflects on the past and contemplates a vision of what is soon to come. What happened later for Marie, My Love.
Rating: M (Mature adult theme) (1,020 words)
The Vision series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Tying One On (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Three Cartwrights look out the window in disbelief of the scene below.
Rating : K+ (840 words)
Posies (by pbeaking)
Summary: Ben has just found the very spot he wants to call home. Can he look past his fear and build his dream into a reality?
Rating: K 650
The Three Peanuts (by Indiana)
Summary : Sheriff Coffee needs Adam’s help to resolve a strange affair in town…
rating K+ WC 1700
Old Man Dizzy (by pbeaking)
Summary: Adam and Hoss Cartwright reflect on the memory of an old ranch hand.
Rating: K+ WC 800
Thank You For Loving Me (by rosecartwright)
Summary: Joe goes to visit his Pa and brothers one summers day leaving his wife and child alone for the day. What will the Cartwright’s do when one of their own is injured and one is missing? Will Joe do whatever it takes to get his wife back or will he listen to Pa and have the sheriff help? What will they do when things start to go for the worse?
Rated: K (11,190 words)
A Birthday Gone Wrong (by rosecartwright)
Summary: Joe’s family and his girlfriend are throwing him a surprise party. But what will Joe do when he has to search for where the party is and things go wrong, well wrong to him?
Rated: K+ (2,170 words)
My Dearest Mother (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: Adam writes a letter to his mother during his last year of college.
Rated: K (585 words)