Summary:  Words said have a destruction consequence within the Cartwright family.  One family member refuses to live where respect does not.

Rating:  K+     Word Count:   6,299

Enough Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: A WHI for “Desperate Passage.”  After rescuing Mary Burns from the Paiutes, Joe has to be saved as his attempt to mount an Indian pony and ride to safety goes awry.

Rating: T (Some Violence)  WC: 3396

Summary:  Sexually explicit sections in the story that explains why Adam has been gone from the Ponderosa for eight years.  It is Adam centric but the other  Cartwrights have significant parts in the story as well.

Rating MA.  WC = 36118

Adam Just Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  The boys have been forced to accept heartrending loss.  Is it time to move on?  K+ (15,750 words)

In Absentia Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:   A lost little girl, a restless Little Joe and a hungry puma converge, sparking a story that explores what it means to have family looking out for you–or counting on you to look out for them.

Rated: K+ (word count: 9,300)

Summary:  Adam left the Ponderosa more than ten years ago; and now, a letter has arrived announcing his intent to return. This story is his, as well as his family’s.   

Rating:  T – for minor cursing.   (53,360 words)

Summary:  Missing scenes, The Trap.  A man’s belief that his wife is having an affair sets events into motion that ultimately drive Joe to challenge a lawman to a gunfight; the only way he can see to prove his innocence, of the affair and of two murders.

Rating:  T  (1,440 words) 

After Little Joe’s testimony helps put a noose around the neck of a murderer, his nightmares are nothing compared to the reality that comes to haunt him.

Rated: T (word count: 25,450)

Story by story in this series, Kate becomes more and more involved in Adam’s life first acting as his nurse several times when he is injured as he faces troubles, and then as his love interest.  She has an unhappy past though which Adam has to unravel to win her heart, and then they face heartache as well as joy together.  She is introduced in this first story as Adam faces a significant challenge and his family deals with heartache.

WC = 99,150   Rating — T

SUMMARY:  A time of contemplation as a man reflects on what’s happened in the past, and what good could come from any of it. —  ‘How am I gonna be an optimist about this?’

Rating:  K  (695 words)

Summary:  Missing Scenes and What Happened Next for the second season episode… The Gift.

Rating: T (5,095 words)

Summary:  One stormy night near Lake Tahoe spells sorrow and disaster for the Cartwrights.

Rating:  T(18,935 words)

Summary:  All is quiet on the Ponderosa, until two strangers show up. Now, things start to twist and turn. Join in as Little Joe & Hoss, along with Ben & Adam, try and figure out how to get themselves out of yet another jam. 

Rated:  T (33,685 Words)

Summary:  Adam’s return from college has Ben saying and doing everything wrong, with no clue as to why he’s acting that way, yet unable to make any adjustments in his behavior to stop the building crisis. The tension in the house comes to a head as Adam is severely injured in a fall and Ben finds out that his son has made plans to leave the ranch and take a job as an engineer in San Francisco. As Adam’s condition unexpectedly worsens, Ben finds the right words to say, but fears it may be too late to make a difference. Paul Martin and Hop Sing play important roles in easing these two powerful Cartwrights back together.  

Rated: K+  WC  9200

Summary: Ben discovers what is–and isn’t–most important about his youngest son.

Rated: T  WC  36,000

The Barn Cat Series, links to all the stories within the series included.