Category: Short Stories
This category is for your Bonanza Short Stories from 500-999 words in length.
Mama Died Today (by southplains)
Summary: A Cartwright son’s short life story.
Rated: K WC 774
One Hour (by JoeC)
Summary: In one hour good and bad can happen. Rating T (675 words)
Killing Cartwrights (by freyakendra)
Summary: Total, inane, silliness, prompted by Inca challenging writers to do what no one–or mostly no one, anyway–wants to do: actually kill a Cartwright! Subsequent discussion bordered on the macabre, with congratulations bestowed upon writers meeting the challenge. These 2 parodies resulted….
Rated: K+ WC 550
Setting the Course (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: At the end of “A House Divided”, have you ever wondered why Adam wasn’t farther along to join the cause before Little Joe caught up with him? Adam had emotionally left the night before Ben‘s encounter with Frederick Kyle and Joe in town. Me… I don’t think it had anything to do with Adam’s response to Joe during the closing scene, “That lake really gets under your skin.”
Rating: K+ (800 words)
Hiding in Fear (by BluewindFarm)
SUMMARY: An unenviable situation finds the brothers in hiding and praying they won’t be found.
Rating: K (640 words)
Out of Boredom Comes Fishing (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: It’s only been a few months since Adam left the Ponderosa; this story finds Hop Sing and Little Joe in the kitchen, talking.
Rating K (990 words)
A Night In San Francisco (by frasrgrl)
Summary: Adam and Joe are in San Francisco and all Adam wants is one night of culture.
Word Count: 502 Rated: T
The End (by faust)
It’s the end. The end of everything–or is it?
No KAOS in this story. Honestly!
700 words, rated K
Church Bells (by faust)
Adam muses about church bells. Or about his family?
730 words, rated K
Alone (by Cheaux)
Summary: A moment in time in a special place.
Rated K. (505 words)
The Man in Black (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: Why does Adam dress in black almost all of the time? Here’s a possible reason for that…..
Rated: K (880 words)
Conflict (by pbeaking)
Summary: This was written for the Chaps & Spurs Literary Challenge in April. Adam and Joe fight and Ben steps in to help.
Rating: K+ 800
No Coffee (by frasrgrl)
Summary: The Cartwrights are out on the trail.
Rated: K (700 words)
Stubborn (by Sibylle)
Summary: WHIB/WHB to “The Ride” Ben remembers his first argument with a three-year-old Adam.
Rated: K WC 650
Homewards (by faust)
After so many years, Adam is coming home.
540 words, rated T