Category: Writing Challenges
Challenges from the Bonanza Brand Forums.
New Year’s Eve Shenanigans (by ljlover2001)
Summary: A story written in response to the Chaps & Spurs January Challenge. Ten year old Little Joe attends a New Years Eve party in town with his family and manages to get into trouble – quelle surprise!
Rated: K (2,025 words)
A Christmas Story (by Storm)
Summary: Here’s my answer to the December Chaps and Spurs challenge.
Rated: K+ WC 3100
Out There (by VCLS)
Summary: Betrayal, wounded pride, and jealousy result in one hot tempered brother missing, one having nightmares, one logical brother searching … all is not as you might think.
Rated: T WC 8600
Calendar Girl (by Cheaux)
Summary: New Year’s Day in 1865 rings in both unspeakable sorrow and unbridled hope for Joe. Reference is made to Between Heaven and Earth.
Rated: T — 2200 words
Things that Go Bump in the Night (by Cheaux)
Summary: Did you ever wonder why Joe was obsessive about hunting creatures of the night in My Brother’s Keeper and Marie, My Love?
Rated: T WC 2500
All Hollow’s Eve (by ljlover2001)
Summary: Written in response to the October chaps and spurs challenge, in honour of Mike Landon’s birthday. Joe stays in town, after the Halloween dance, to enjoy a game of poker with his friends, but soon wishes he had gone home with his brothers
Rated: K+ (1,960 words)
The Journey (by Dodo)
Summary: 2010 Halloween Challenge: Injured and alone Ben prepares to take a journey.
Rated: K+ Word Count: 5050
Harvest Festival (by ljlover2001)
Summary: Written in response to the October challenge, to write a story using the words, leaves, Indian, summer, smoke, frost. Joe soon begins to regret a hasty decision
Rated: K (1,835 words)
A Hunting We Will Go (ljlover2001)
Summary: Hoss and Joe go on a hunting trip, but they become the hunted, not the hunters
Rated: K+ (1,340 words)
First Day Nerves (ljlover2001)
Summary: Little Joe has to face his greatest challenge since losing his mother
Rated: K+ (1,670 words)
The Greatest Gift (by Cheaux)
Summary: Joe overhears what he knows to be a lie, but cannot convince anyone else to believe him.
Rated: T — WC 7800
A Sure-Fire Plan (by Patina)
Rating: K
Word Count=5950
Summary: Two men plan are entrusted with a plan to kidnap one of Ben’s sons and hold him for ransom.
Camilla (by pjb)
Summary: SJS for Devonshire (belated). A local girl disappears on the same day Joe is assaulted. Coincidence? Maybe . . . or maybe not.
Rated: K+ WC 28,000
Valentine’s Day (by Storm)
Summary: This is my entry for the February challenge.
Rated: K+ Word Count 1200
Frozen (by a lisa south)
Summary: The ransom note came attached to Joe’s coat: ‘We have your boy, Cartwright, and he’s cold. How long before he freezes to death?’ Can Ben save Joe from kidnappers before it’s too late?
Rated: K+ (18,485 words)