Summary: There are some tasks a father is called upon to perform that are not as welcome as others.
Rating: K+ WC 1200
A Little Piece of Heaven – by Terri
Summary: It’s a very hot day and two Cartwright sons decide to go swimming naked in the lake. Unknowingly Little Joe causes Adam to give the visiting ladies a glimpse of ‘A Little Piece of Heaven’!!
Rating: T WC 2700
A New Understanding – by Terri
Summary: A WHN for First Born. Adam is angry at Joe for offering to leave with Clay. Will he be able to reconcile with his youngest brother?
Rating: K+ WC 2200
Summary: This story is written in tribute to my eldest brother who was left severely mentally handicapped as a result of a smallpox injection when he was a child.
Rating: K WC 9000
A Surprise Birthday – by Terri
Summary: Joe is celeb
Rating: an important birthday, but will his family allow him to become a man?
Rating: K+ WC 3000
Alternative Nativity Story (The) – by Terri
Summary: An unmarried mother arrives at the Ponderosa for Christmas. How will the family cope with the impending birth?
Rated: K+ WC 7200
Summary: Joe is tried and convicted of murder. Is he guilty? Everyone including Joe thinks he is. Adam sets out to prove Joe’s innocence, but will he be in time to save him from the hangman’s noose?
Rating: T WC 22,000
Summary: With Adam’s prompting, Ben decides to give his youngest son a talk on the facts of life.
Rating: T WC 1700
Blood is Thicker Than Water – by Terri
Summary: What if Clay and Will never left the Ponderosa. How will Ben cope with five rambunctious under his roof. Will rough housing, drinking, card playing, womanizing become the norm??
Rating: T WC 24,000
Boy to Man – Book 1 – Boy to Man to Boy – by Terri
Summary: Joe the boy was anxious to become the man only to find that in many ways he wished to remain the boy.
Rating: K+ WC 20,000
Boy to Man– Book 2 – The Best Days of our Lives – by Terri
Summary: Two years have passed but Little Joe encounters Frank Carter once more.
Rating: T WC 17,000
Boy to Man– Book 3 – To Become A Man – by Terri
Summary: The third and final story.
Rating: T 12,000 words
Caught in a Mouse Trap – by Terri
Summary: Adam and Hoss find themselves in a tricky situation. Who can be to blame? Watch out Joe!
Rated: K+ WC 4300
Summary: Ben decides to teach a 4 year old Joe about sharing, but roles are reversed and Ben receives the lesson.
Rated: K WC 1500
Summary: As Adam and Joe sit round the campfire, Adam regales an incredulous Joe of their first meeting with Julia Bulette. A meeting that got both Adam and his Pa into big trouble with Marie.
Rated: K+ WC 9300
Everyone Cries Sometimes – by Terri
Summary: Sometimes being the perfect son is not easy to live up to; even Hoss has to have an off day. But what is troubling Hoss to make him lose his appetite, lash out at his youngest brother and square up to his eldest?
Rated: K WC 4800
Fairness of Life (The) – by Terri
Summary: Joe falls passionately in love and his behaviour causes concern for Ben. Adam is the only one to suspect all is not what it seems.
Rated: T WC 10,100
Summary: A Birthday tribute to Michael Landon on his 72nd birthday. What are the four Cartwrights up to now???
Rated: K WC 1200
Summary: It should have been a pleasant day fishing for the three brothers, but when Joe loses his pants, wears Hoss’ drawers and exposes himself unwittingly, they would have been better off staying home.
Rated: K+ WC 4300
Greatest Love of All (The) – by Terri
Summary: How will Ben react to the new love in Marie’s life?
Rated: K+ WC 1100
Home is Where the Heart Is – by Terri
Summary: Ben finally returns home after the death of Marie.
Rated: K+ WC 2900
Summary: As Adam and Joe lock horns, Adam finds ‘humble pie’ is on the menu again and again.
Rated: K+ WC 19,000
Learning the Hard Way – by Terri
Summary: Adam has a pleasurable time with his favourite saloon girl, Hoss shows he’s not so shy with Bessie Sue and Ben proves there’s life in the old dog yet. This all takes place one Saturday afternoon. But what of Joe??
The youngest and most inexperienced of the Cartwright men experiences an induction into both love and pain he is not likely to forget.
Rated: MA WC 27,000
Warning: this story is sexually explicit. If you are easily offended please do not continue
Learning to Live with your Life – by Terri
Summary: When Joe complains about his size, his brother Hoss is the best one to understand how he feels.
Rated: K+ WC 1900
Looking Death in the Face – by Terri
Summary: The thoughts in your head when you are about to die. Little Joe knows his time is up but the suffering starts long before the bullet is fired.
Rated: K+ WC 2800
Summary: Locked away and unable to escape, all Joe can do is wait for his jailer’s return.
Rated: K+ WC 1700
Loss of a Child (The) – by Terri
Summary: Ben is ready to make the ultimate sacrifice for the sake of his child.
Rating: PG 16,615 words
Lost Loves – Gone But Not Forgotten – by Terri
Summary: After the death of Alice, Joe reflects on the people he has lost in his life. He needs his big brother’s support, but Adam has not been heard of for three years.
Rated: K+ WC 4400
Summary: Joe has to get married…….or does he??
Rated: K+ WC 1300
Oh What a Tangled Web we Weave – by Terri
Summary: When Charley joins the cattle drive, he causes one headache after another for Joe and his family. Only Joe is aware that Charley is not all he seems!!
Rated: T WC 14,000
Summary: Adam has the chance to expand his ‘education’ before going to college, but little brothers, fallen angels and his ‘creator’ have different ideas.
Rated: T WC 4900
Play Before Bedtime – by Terri
Summary: After a confrontation with Adam, Joe rides away from the house and into trouble.
Rated: K+ WC 2000
Resilience of Youth (The) – by Terri
Summary: Joe is broken hearted when Molly dies in his arms. In his distress, he disappears causing his family to mount a desperate search to find him.
Rated: K+ WC 2800
San Francisco Surprise – by Terri
Summary: On a visit to San Francisco the three brothers are out on the town when Little Joe has a surprise experience and gloats about his fortune, but it’s his brothers who have the last laugh.
Rated: MA WC 1800
WARNING this story is sexually explicit
Summary: A hot day in Virginia City is turned into a battlefield.
Rated: K+ WC 1600
Survival Instinct (The) – by Terri
Summary: Three of the Cartwrights are taken captive and left to die. How will they escape and track the gang that is using Joe to carry out their evil plans.
Rated: K+ WC 22,600
Summary: The tragic events that devastate two families, bring them together once more twelve years later.
Rated: K+ WC 6300
Summary: When Hoss falls in love it causes a rift between him and his youngest brother, which effects all the family. Unbeknown to the family, the girl’s uncle has a dark secret that threatens to destroy all their lives.
Rated: T WC 23,000
Where There’s Life There’s Hope – by Terri
Summary: Disobedient sons, worried brothers, irate fathers, twins, rustlers, suffering and repentance all go together to make the following story.
Rated: K WC 25,000