Category: Hurt/Comfort
The Whistle (by Dodo)
Summary: Joe finds solace from an unexpected source
Rated: K+ Word Count: 9161
Dead On Time (by Dodo)
Summary: It’s New Years Eve and Death awaits its latest victim from the Ponderosa
Rated: K+ WC 16,500
The Healing Touch (by Susan G)
Summary: Joe is wounded when the stage he and Ben were riding in is robbed.
Word Count: 5100 Rated T
Waiting (by Dodo)
Summary: Joe’s thoughts as he waits to die
Rated: K+ Word Count: 10663
The Snipe Hunt (by Susan G)
Summary: Joe pulls Hoss into another prank that could cost more than he bargained for.
Word Count: 27,300 Rated: T
Burden of Guilt (by DebbieB)
Summary: When Joe is shot by an intruder, Ben blames himself for his son’s injury. Things go from bad to worse, deepening Ben’s burden of guilt.
Rated: PG for Mild language (14,550 words)
The Mission (by Susan G)
Summary: Ben and Joe are robbed and left afoot in the desert with the nearest outpost about twenty miles away. Their journey is complicated when Joe is bitten by a scorpion.
Word Count: 10,000 Rated: T
Breath of Life (by JoanS)
Summary: A potentially deadly illness sneaks up on the youngest Cartwright. Follow along as, in a moment of true Joe, the family finds themselves racing against time.
Rating: K (16,720 words)
To Bed, To Bed (by Calim11)
Summary: With Ben in Denver and Hop Sing in San Francisco, Adam’s in charge. What could possibly go wrong?
Rating: K+ (7,970 words)
Thoughts on Being a Father (by DebbieB)
Summary: With his youngest son injured, Ben takes time to reflect on what his life was like before he became a father.
Rated: G (2,420 words)
Holdin’ the Cut (by Harper)
Summary: Adam returns from college and struggles to renew his relationship with Joe.
Rated: K+ (16,545 words)
Lady in Blue (by Susan G)
Summary: Taking an alternate route home with a wagon full of grain places Joe’s life in danger. While waiting to be rescued he encounters a lovely lady.
Rating: T (5,100 words)
Beating Death’s Game (by DebbieB)
Summary: An unfortunate accident, leaves Joe Cartwright wishing he’d never been born.
Rated: PG (8,300 word)
One Lucky Man (by DebbieB)
Summary: A prank, an accusation, and a journey to death’s door, shows all of the Cartwrights and a few others, just how lucky one man can truly be.
Rating: PG (19,650 words)
Shared Guilt (by Debbie B)
Summary: When Ben decides to marry again for the fourth time, things as they had always been suddenly start going haywire, especially for Little Joe. But when a buggy accident claims the life of Nora Cromwell, leaving Little Joe fighting for his own life, both Ben and Joe end up blaming themselves for the other’s pain and sorrow. There once close relationship suddenly starts to decline, causing more stress and even more guilt for both. Can the warm, loving relationship that father and son once shared, be saved before it becomes lost to them forever?
Rated PG WC 14,600
