Category: Hurt/Comfort
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.
Erinnerungen (by Sibylle)
Summary: Adam und Ben denken beide aus gegebenem Anlass an ihre gemeinsame Fahrtzeit zurück (1844).
Rated: K+ WC 4000
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
Snake Catch (by DanceDiva)
Summary: Twelve year old Joe is bitten by a rattlesnake, but things get uglier faster than expected.
Rated: K (5,000 words)
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)
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.
For Honor (by Sibylle)
Summary: The consequences of a fight at school. Prequel (1854)
Rated: K+ WC 600
Surrender To Your Fate AKA The tale of a bullheaded brother and his keepers (by Stetson1859)
Summary: A WHN for Escape To Ponderosa
Rated: K (3,270 words)
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
