Category: Hurt/Comfort
Valentine Romance (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam met Meredith when she was a young girl and a friend of Joe’s. When he sees her again, she is a beautiful woman with a sad, dark secret. Love, romance, finding out her secret, and dealing with her past make up the rest of the story.
Rating — T. 30,371 words
An Offering of Comfort (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Ben sat and waited as one of his sons lies in bed injured… the details within the room… the depths… maybe a revelation or two.
Rating: K (1,000 words)
Christmas Presents (by Sibylle)
Summary: A prequel about a young Little Joe, set in the fall of 1850 while Adam is away in Boston.
Rating: K WC 2100
A Lifetime of Unhappiness (by faust)
Gravely hurt and completely helpless, Adam finds himself at the mercy of a person from his past who seeks nothing but revenge. And for once, there’s no chance he’ll talk his way out of it.
In the end it might come down to who’s more determined; and Adam surely won’t give up. No, he won’t, will he?
7,500 words, rated T
Rattlesnake — aka After the Gunfight (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: A gunfight and the resulting collateral damage.
Rating: T (1,845 words)
Loser Take All (by freyakendra)
Summary: Joe’s biggest ever poker win results in Adam and Hoss playing for higher stakes than any of them could ever have imagined.
Rated: T WC 12,600
Just A… Series
Just A Little Disagreement
The Dawson Gang
Just A Poker Game
Loser Take All
Crime and Punishment (by Sibylle)
Summary: Abigail Jones and Joe Cartwright take a journey together on business neither of them ever expected to have.
Rated: T WC 4700
I’m Already There… (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: For those who believe… After an accident, Little Joe asks one very important question that only one person can answer. Is it any surprise at the response he receives?
Rating: K (2,215 words)
Left to Die (by DebbieB)
Summary: cattle thieves, Little Joe is shot in the back and left to die. As he fights for his life, Little Joe also fights with the knowledge that his attackers have seemingly gotten away with their crimes
Rated: G (18,330 words)
A Long and Twisted Path (by Sibylle)
Summary: This story tells about Marie’s first time living with Ben and his two sons. The beginning wasn’t easy …
Rated: K+ 5600
Revelation (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: When a man rescues one of Ben Cartwright’s sons not once, but twice; the stranger brings huge implications for the family. Will it bring them together or tear them apart?
Rating: Teen+ for mild language, violence, and mild adult situations. (61,135 words)
Something So Savage (by freyakendra)
Summary: Two unexpected visitors arrive at the Ponderosa within hours of each other: Adam’s favorite professor from college and a blue-eyed Indian with a skewed understanding of Paiute ways and a twisted view of good vs. evil. Join the Cartwrights as they struggle to get through a night of savage terror that marks Little Joe as a target—and his scalp as a trophy.
Rated: T WC 28,000
Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? or The Art of Love and War (by faust)
Adam embarks on an adventure his family had not expected him to — although maybe they should have. And now they all have to watch helplessly as their once peaceful world shatters around them. Part of the series, but can definitely read as a stand-alone.
74,600 words, rated T
The Art-Universe series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
Chasing Time (by freyakendra)
Summary: Joe is forced to accept that sometimes a man’s fate is out of his hands. But sitting back and waiting for God to do what He would didn’t have to mean giving up hope.
Rated: K+ Word Count: 2,600
Pandora’s Sisters (by freyakendra)
The unexpected arrival of a mysterious group of women complicates—and threatens—Cartwright lives, turning the Ponderosa into a decisive battleground.
Rated: T (61,600 words)