Stories by Author – HelenA

 

Babysitter (The) – by HelenA

Summary:  The family has to deal with jealousy as Hoss suffers through the Middle Child Syndrome.
Rating:  K+   11,290 words


Campfire Legends  HelenA

Summary:  Three brothers, a campfire, and ghost stories on All Hallow’s Eve.
Rating:   K+  8,690 words


Care Package (The) #1 – by HelenA

Summary: College freshman Adam gets a special package from home.
Rated: K  7,065 words


Care Package (The) #2 – Bridging the Gap – by HelenA

Summary: Adam returns to find that he and Joe must readjust to each other. — Sequel to ‘Care Package’.
Rated: K  48,390 words


Cartwright Curse (The) – by HelenA

Summary:  Oh, the curse of having to appease Pa with his friends.  Who knew what a disaster it would lead to?
Rating:  T   4,430 words


Dark of Night – by HelenA

Summary:  It’s not always a person who can comfort after a nightmare.
Rating:   K  1,000 words


Deadliest Game:  Joe in Tights (The) – by HelenA

Summary:  A Missing Scene from the episode, The Deadliest Game
Rating:  K+   2,825 words


Final Farewell – by HelenA

Summary: The Cartwrights say goodbye to their beloved Hoss.
Rated: K  5,095 words


Frisco – by HelenA

Summary: The boys must take unusual measures to save their father when his life is threatened.
Rated: T  20,960 words


Ghosts of Christmas Past – by HelenA

Summary:  Joe is feeling lonely on Christmas eve.  Between the end of Season 13 and the beginning of season 14.
Rating:  G   1,450 words


Glimpse of Heaven – by HelenA

Summary: An alternate ending to “The Stillness Within”.
Rated: T  56,060 words


Growing Pains – by HelenA

Summary: Growing up isn’t easy, physically or emotionally, as Joe Cartwright discovers.
Rated: T  29,565 words


Heat Wave – by HelenA

Summary: There’s more than one way to cool down during a heat wave, or did things just get steamier?
Rating:  T   2,525 words


Helping Hands – by HelenA

Summary: Joe is ambushed and left to die on a lonely road.
Rated: T  20,900 words


Meat in the Middle – by HelenA

Summary: To the victor go the spoils.
Rating:  K   500 word


Needed Strength – by HelenA

Summary: Joe must enter a burning building to save Hoss.
Rated: T  2,140 words


Night Visitor – by HelenA

Summary:  Not everything that shuffles in the night is a bad omen.
Rating: K   1,210 words


One of Those Days – by HelenA

Summary:  Did you ever known anyone to have ‘one of those days’ that stretched into an entire week?  No?  Well sit back and let Joe tell you all about it.
Rating:  K+   20,630 words


Pa’s Christmas Gift – by HelenA

Summary:  It’s Christmas time on the Ponderosa.  What are the boys planning to get Ben for Christmas?
Rating:  K   5,785 words


Palace (The) – by HelenA

Summary: A trip to Sacramento brings illness, new friends, romance and life lessons to Joe Cartwright.
Rated: T  71,855 words


Picnic Day – by HelenA

Summary:  The cat gets the mouse or should it be, the middle brother gets the girl.
Rating: K   1,180 words


Sanctuary – by HelenA

Summary:  Taking refuge in an abandoned barn, Ben and Joe encounter something not of this world.  A story to be read around a campfire on Halloween.
Rating T   7,350 words


Santa’s Helpers – by HelenA

Summary:  Stranded in the middle of nowhere two days before Christmas, will the brothers make it home in time?
Rating T  13,875 words


Strawberries – by HelenA

Summary:  The family spends an afternoon together.
Rating:  K   9,515 words


Summer Vacation – by HelenA

Summary: Joe feels like an afterthought in his brothers’ lives, but Ben comes up with a solution to his problem.
Rated: K  20,640 words


To Keep the Vultures at Bay – by HelenA

Summary:  What the boys go through To Keep the Vultures at Bay.
Rating:  K   1,475 words


Toymaker (The) – by HelenA

Summary:  It’s Christmas, in this story written by Helen Adams and the Tahoe Ladies.
Rating:  K   7,135 words


Wanted Poster (The) – by HelenA

Summary:  An afternoon spent rifling through Roy’s stack of wanted posters and an over active imagination leads one Cartwright into danger.  Will he survive long enough to retract his tall tales and set the record straight?
Rating:  K+   28,423 words

 

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