Summary: During the last quarter of 2015, members in the Brand Forums were challenged to write vignettes for all the Bonanza episodes. Members could submit as many Little Bits for as many episodes as they were inspired to write. Multiple members could submit Little Bits for the same episode. The hardest part of the challenge was to write the vignette in exactly 100 or 200 words.
Some Little Bits are dramatic while others are humorous. The submitting member is identified after each Little Bit. 132 Little Bits have been submitted to date and are listed in episode order.

Rating: K (16,000+ words)

Summary: Missing scenes for The Truckee Strip.

Rating:  K  (1,345 words)

Summary:  Repercussions, consequences, and guilt.  A Missing scene from She Walks in Beauty.

Rating:   (1,520 words)

Summary:  Memories and the hurt over losing Rebecca Kaufman cause  someone else to recount their own loss, in hopes it will help Adam to understand — he is not alone.

Rating:  K+  (4,360 words)

Summary:  Inspired by The Mother of All Challenges, to write a story featuring one or more of the Cartwrights in any time period (prequel, season 1-14, sequel, AU),  in which Virginia City is an integral part of the tale.  

Rating:  K  (4,030 words)

This is my story.

Virginia City, Nevada — Home of the Comstock Lode.   A place where things happen twenty-four hours a day. Thirty thousand people called it home at the peak of the gold and silver rush. A boom town!

Summary: Rose McNair gives Dan De Quille an interview after Virginia City’s great fire. A “What Happened Elsewhere” for The Night Virginia City Died.

Rated: K WC:2500

Summary: A WHN for Five Sundowns to Sunup / WHL for Death at Dawn story.

Rating:  K  (2,185 words)

Summary: For those who were never satisfied with the brief glimpse of a picture on the desk.  What should have happened to honor the passing of Hoss (aka Dan Blocker).

Rating:  K (1,550 words)

Summary: This “what happens later” story for Thanks for Everything, Friend, picks up after Tom Wilson has been dead for several months and a woman comes to Virginia City with one goal in mind: to kill Adam Cartwright for his role in Tom’s death. She holds Adam at gunpoint as she presses her case against him, and he tries to help her see the truth before she pulls the trigger.

Rating: K   Word Count: 9492

Summary:   A WHIB for the episode To Die in Darkness (S9E28).  An extension and analysis of Candy’s spiral into depression and attempted suicide that hopefully offers some explanation and closure.

Rating: T (for mentions of suicide)    Word Count: 5455 words.

Summary:  Twenty years etched into the memory of a man who stands at the crossroads of his life.  

Rating:  K (10,815 words)

Summary:  Adam left the Ponderosa more than ten years ago; and now, a letter has arrived announcing his intent to return. This story is his, as well as his family’s.   

Rating:  T – for minor cursing.   (53,360 words)

SUMMARY:  A time of contemplation as a man reflects on what’s happened in the past, and what good could come from any of it. —  ‘How am I gonna be an optimist about this?’

Rating:  K  (695 words)

A ‘missing’ scene from ‘The Storm’.  WARNING!!   Please note this story has graphic sexual content.

R Rated – 7300 words  This is an old story I’ve been asked to upload. I’ve checked it through and done a little tweaking, and any mistakes you find are mine and mine alone.

Summary:  Missing Scenes and What Happened Next for the second season episode… The Gift.

Rating: T (5,095 words)