What Happened Before, Missing Scenes, What Happened Next, What Happened Instead, and stories that begged to be told that were not included within the series. Some of these stories were challenge inspired and some, the writers were just never satisfied with what was aired.
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Please be advised that the listing of stories below may contain works which have been assigned and “R” or a “Mature” rating by their respective authors. Such stories could contain explicit language and/or adult themes; and are not intended for readers under the age of 18. Please heed our rating guidelines.
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Burden of Guilt (The) – by CareBear
Summary: Adam carries a self-enforced burden of guilt, haunted by memories of the past that are dredged to the surface by Delphine’s death.
Rating: T (violence) Word Count: 6823
Final Bequest (The) by PuchiAnn
Summary: A retrospective on two episodes of Bonanza, The Quality of Mercy and The Dark Gate. Adam and Joe each contemplate the death of a best friend.
(6,285 words) Rated: K+
Gray by gaerwn
Summary: After the events in the episode The Dark Gate, Adam reflects. An expanded response to the Pinecone Challenge #20, in which the first line was given.
Rated: K+ (1,265 words)
In for a Penny, In for a Pound by Pullitzer2016
Summary: Fourteen-year-old Adam and his best friend Ross find a bottle of whiskey in the Marquettes’ hayloft and decide to recreate Leonardo da Vinci’s flying machine. What could possibly go wrong?
Rating: T Word Count: 10,554
Summary: Rainy day reflections from Hoss Cartwright in the aftermath of a tragedy. Rating: T Word Count: 643
(An epilogue for “The Dark Gate”)
Tying One On by BluewindFarm
Summary: Three Cartwrights look out the window in disbelief of the scene below.
Rating: K+ (840 words)
With this Ring by Patina
Summary: The Cartwrights attend a wedding.
Rating: K Word Count=1301
