Category: Hurt/Comfort
He Had a Bad Day (by freyakendra)
Summary: No bad day could ever compare to Joe’s bad day. Next time you have a bad day, read this and suddenly it won’t seem so bad after all! 😉
Rated: K+ WC 6400
Mark Of The Beast (by Inca / aka Tye)
A lonely young woman in need of a husband; two brothers caught in a trap. One finds love, and the other that the tree of self-knowledge bears costly fruit.
NB: Contains scenes of a sexually explicit nature.
Rated: MA WC 25,000
Tears of Growing Up #1 (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: An accident while breaking horses sets Joe and the family on a downward spiral as unfounded fears over rule common sense. And when tragedy again strikes on the Ponderosa…will the family ever be whole?
Rating: K+ (40,470 words)
Tears of Growing Up series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
Ben and Adam on the Road (by Sibylle)
Summary: WHB Inger My Love Even Ben wasn´t always the perfect father.
Rated: K WC 1250
Wolf in the Wind (by freyakendra)
Summary: Seeking shelter in a line shack during an early spring ice storm, Joe encounters a family of moonshiners he doesn’t stand the chance of fighting. He can do nothing but hold to the thin hope that his family will reach him in time.
Rated: T Word Count: 25,000
One Bullet & Holding to Hope (by freyakendra)
One Bullet->: Wounded and running out of time, Joe’s only hope is his ability to believe that a single bullet can make any difference at all.
Holding to Hope->: (Sequel to One Bullet.) In the wake of Annie Grainger’s murder, Joe’s family and hers are brought together in bitterness, compassion, and a shared need for hope: one, for survival of the body; the other, for survival of the soul.
WC 10,200
Dancing With Angels (by Inca / aka Tye)
A series of misfortunes with the opposite sex threatens Joe’s relationship with his family and brings his life into mortal danger.
Rating T Contains scenes and themes that might be considered of an adult nature. WC 44,000
For the Love of a Brother (by Tauna Petit-Strawn)
Summary: Ben is shocked when he returns home to find two of his sons fighting for their lives. All three sons really should be in the character choice spot. I stink at summaries. Please read anyway. WARNING; MAJOR character death.
Rating T (10, 960 words)
Second Chances (by Susan G)
Summary: A WHN for the episode, Second Chance.
Rating: T (14,400 words)
Tumbleweed (by freyakendra)
Summary: Two brothers plagued by accidents and misfortune, one young man haunted by his own brothers’ deaths, a deadly outlaw with no conscience…and the Cartwright family caught in the crossfire. Follow the trail of the Nevada Territory’s most notorious outlaw through the words of Tumbleweed, a writer aiming to turn a killer into a legend, until that trail dead-ends on the Ponderosa. After the shooting stops, will tragedy be avoided, or simply rewritten?
Rated: T Word Count: 14,900
Without Sin (by Inca / aka Tye)
Adam and Joe fall in love with the same woman, and Ben has a secret that may well tear the Cartwrights apart.
Rated: T WC 30,200
At Dusk (by faust)
What has happened that has changed Adam so much?
A story about the ravages of life and the endurance of love with references to ‘Triangle’ and ‘Forever.’
9,500 words, rated T
The Destruction of Joe Cartwright (by VCLS)
Summary: A unspeakable tragedy threatens to break apart the close-knit Cartwright family.
Rated: T WC 14,500
Abigail, My Love (by Tauna Petit-Strawn)
Summary: Hoss, his pa and brothers sit by the bedside of Hoss’ wife, Abigail, praying she recovers from a bank robber’s bullet. As they wait, they reminisce.
Rating: T (15,800 words)
The Girl With The Red Hair (by Inca / aka Tye)
Robbed and left for dead at the roadside, Adam and Joe are forced to take shelter from a storm in an abandoned house. Injured himself, Adam struggles to keep his brother alive. But the house has a past, and it returns to haunt them…
Rated: T WC 9500