Category: Hurt/Comfort
Hate and Fear (by Rona)
Summary: A local man marries an Indian girl, and stirs up a racial backlash, which encompasses the Cartwrights, who offer friendship.
Rated: T (10,500 words)
The Best Medicine #2 – Malice Aforethought (by Wrangler)
Summary: Little Joe finds himself desperate for his father’s help to save his life after the evil doctor Steven Hale gets a hold of him and injures him in an act of revenge.
Rated: T, WC 28,000
Links to stories in the series included within.
Better Left Unsaid (by Rona)
Summary: When Ben is not feeling well, he decides to tell only Adam. But Joe senses something is wrong, and he ends up fighting with Adam. Unable to face going home, he runs into trouble.
Rated: T (8,280 words)
A Blank Space (by Rona)
Summary: Joe is found badly beaten on the road. He doesn’t know how he got there. Can the Cartwrights find out in time before tragedy strikes?
Rated: K+ (10,800 words)
A Sacrifice of Love (by Rona)
Summary: When a man from Ben’s past returns, the Cartwrights are plagued by accidents. After Adam is badly injured, Ben decides to do something about it. But the worst is yet to come.
Rated: T (9,840 words)
Never Too Old To Learn (by DebbieB)
Summary: Both Adam and Joe learn that you’re never too old to learn something new after an accident leaves Joe mortally wounded and his older brother feeling guilty.
Rated: G (18,160 words)
The Church Social (by Rona)
Summary: A church social brings tragedy to Virginia City and the Ponderosa.
Rated: K (6,365 words)
Hide and Seek (by JoanS)
Summary: A game of Hide and Seek between Hoss and Little Joe takes an unexpected turn.
Rating: G 5,600 words
For the Love of a Horse (by Rona)
Summary: Joe encounters Satan again, and then finds his life depends on the unpredictable stallion.
Rated: T (10,195 words)
The Mustang Series, links to all stories within the series are included.
Kicks Like a Mule (by Gwynne)
Summary: A seriously injured Adam must deal with the urgent need to get the ranch ready for winter, and try to solve a domestic mystery while coping with insistent pain that immobilizes and distracts him.
Rating: T (21,700 words)
The Mustang (by Rona)
Summary: Joe sets his heart on capturing a skewbald stallion, and breaking him. Will giving his heart so recklessly to the horse cause it to break instead?
Rated: T (8,746 words)
The Mustang Series, links to all stories within the series are included.
Stranger in our Midst (by Rona)
Summary: The prequel to ‘Payback Time’. A college friend of Adam’s comes home with him. 12 year old Joe is jealous. Or is he?
Rated: T
(5,745 words)
Stranger in our Midst Series, links to all stories within the series are included.
The Best Medicine #1 (by Wrangler)
Summary: Ben struggles with saving Joe’s life having already dealt with an incompetent replacement physician.
Rated T WC 11,000
The Best Medicine Series, links to all stories within the series are included.
The Lie (by KateP)
Summary: Joe lies on behalf of a friend.
Rated: K+ (6,400 words)
Crystal Ball Predictions (by DebbieB)
Summary: When Adam suddenly inherits a son, Joe is washed away by a flash flood, Ben breaks a leg and Hoss leaves home in search of his missing brother, the Cartwrights begin to wish they had never visited the fortune teller.
Rated: G (32,000 words)
