Category: Hurt/Comfort
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)
But for the Grace of God (by DebbieB)
Summary: When mad dogs attack fifteen-year old Joseph Cartwright, the family struggles with their emotions as they watch the boy, whom they love more than life, battle against the deadly effects of hydrophobia, for which there is no cure.
Rated: G (19,700 words)
Are You or Aren’t You (by DebbieB)
Summary: After waking from a head injury, Joe struggles with what was real and what was a dream.
Rated: G (5,975 words)
If I’m Dreaming Series, links to all stories within the series are included.
Requiem (by Wrangler)
Summary: A man seeking revenge makes three attempts at killing Little Joe, will the third time be the charm?
Rated T, WC 36,000
The Step Brother (by KateP)
Summary: As Ben prepares to marry Joe will not only gain a step mother but also a step brother.
Rated: K+ (11,345 words)
Disappearance (by KateP)
Summary: Influenza on the Ponderosa
Rated: K+ (8,985 words)
Seven Times in a Day (by DebbieB)
Summary: An unfortunate incident that involves his father, leaves Joe with feelings of guilt and fear that Ben may never forgive him for what happened. Adam shares a long kept secret with his youngest brother that helps Joe accept the fact that his father can and will forgive him.
Rated: G (7,000 words)
Joe Cartwright RIP (by KateP)
Summary: Ben gets word to say his youngest son is dead.
Rated: K+ (7,440 words)
