Category: MA-Rated / R-Rated
Stories for readers 18 & older.
Saucy Sally Picks a Pocket (by CareBear)
Summary: Saucy Sally has a birthday wish that will take a fortune to fulfill. How does she solve this problem? By picking some pockets of course! Written in answer to the 2025 Brandaversary R-Rated Story challenge.
Rating: MA/R (language, sexual situations & descriptions)
Word Count: 13,039
Saucy Sally’s Nineteenth Year (by LillianMontane)
Summary: The Cartwright brothers and their times at Saucy Sally’s.
Rating: R Word Count: 2475
Saucy Sally and the Birthday Surprise (by Pat D in PA)
RATING: MA/R
SUMMARY: Not long after Adam returns from college, he begins to wonder if he should have come back at all, as his father doesn’t seem to recognize he’s not the stripling youth he’d been when he left home more than four years earlier. It takes a wise young woman of the world to potentially set both Cartwright men straight and help heal a rift that threatens to destroy the family.
Written in answer to the 2025 Brandaversary R-Rated Story challenge.
(10,230 words)
A Banquet of Consequences (by CareBear)
Summary: Newlywed Adam enjoys an evening out with his wife, followed by pleasurable adult activities at home.
Rating: MA/R (sexual content) WC: 4728
Almost Caught (by LillianMontane)
Summary: Little Joe is almost caught in a brothel when he is 17.
Rating: M Word count: 1476
A New Light (by Wrangler)
Summary: The Cartwrights go after the Dalton brothers and Joe struggles to face the horrors done to him in the cabin in order to leave the darkness and come into A New Light.
Rating: MA (graphic violence and adult subject matter) WC 56,939
Different Than Planned (by bonanzagirl)
Summary: The story plays after the episode ‘Between Heaven and Earth.’ Joe plans a well-deserved summer vacation, but the journey becomes an unexpected nightmare.
Rating: M (sexual content, violence) Word Count: 19100
Soldier Boy (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: When Adam Cartwright left college to join the Union Army, he had no idea he would be involved in three of the most significant battles of the Civil War. Nor did he know that the experience would mark his life forever and influence the man he would become.
Rating: MA for battlefield violence
Word Count: 94,855
Links to stories of A Separate Dream Series are included within.
The Covered Wagon (by bonanzagirl)
Summary: Joe and Adam make an unexpected discovery on a hunting trip
Rating: M Word Count: 16200
Li’l One (by pkmoonshine)
Early one morning, Ben finds a baby left at the kitchen door of the Cartwrights’ home. In Sacramento, meanwhile, Adam and his family receive devastating news.
MA/R For language, violence, and graphic descriptions of physical abuse of a minor
WC 91,159
Bloodlines Series
The Secret (by Inca / aka Tye)
Summary: An old friend has a favor to ask of Adam, with consequences neither of them will ever forget.
MA rated
5330 words
Dear Diary (by BettyHT)
Summary: A young lady has an evening with Adam that is more a fantasy. She writes down everything she can think of to write down to preserve the details. Minor grammatical errors are fitting for the character and should not interfere with reading the story. MA 2,629
Little Joe Cartwright, So Far (by pjb)
Summary: A vintage piece from the days when Joegals ran rampant around the Bonanza community.
Definitely MA. About 6,700 words, or maybe a little more.
Mrs. Hardwicke’s Parlor (by Inca / aka Tye)
Summary: While studying in Boston, a young Adam Cartwright finds himself a part-time job – with unexpected benefits.
My response to Brand’s 13th anniversary R-rated challenge (to include the words “lacy lingerie”)
WC: 7150 Rating: MA (for sexual content)
A Heart-filled Royal Flush (by EROS)
Summary: Is she really the newest working girl in Virginia City? Written for Bonanza Brand’s R-Rated 13th Anniversary Writing Challenge.
Rating: R / Mature Audience only. Not extremely explicit, but close enough. (2,775 words)