Most Recent – A Ponderosa Thanksgiving – posted 11/15/2025 – see summary below
A Goodyear Christmas – Heather-Chrysalis
Summary: The misadventures of Santa and Adam.
Rating: G 1,955 words
Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
A Ponderosa Thanksgiving – by HeatherChrysalis
Summary: The Cartwright clan express their love and gratitude for each other and for the land.
Rated G Wordcount: 375
A Question of Beauty — by Heather-Chrysalis
Summary: A Cat and Hoss teach a hard-hearted boy about love and forgiveness. This piece started out as a pinecone in August 2023, then I developed it a bit more into a short story. It was also inspired by a story I heard long ago on the radio.
Rating: T Wordcount: 2,228
Adam and the Chocolate Bookworm – by Heather-Chrysalis
Summary: Chocolate, poetry and Adam…what more could you want for a Winter’s tale. Adam is in his final year at Harvard and visits Boston where he meets a very special young lady. WIP title: A Season of Chocolate and Poetry.
Rated: T Wordcount: 59, 991
Adam and the Christmas Hippopotamus – by Heather-Chrysalis
Summary: Inspired by my favorite holiday song “I Want A Hippopotamus For Christmas”. While on his journey out west with his Pa, five-year-old Adam asks Santa for a very special Christmas present.
Rating: G Wordcount: 9,397
All Hallows’ Harvest – by Heather-Chrysalis
Summary: Something evil lurks in a cornfield on the Ponderosa and unleashes terror on the Cartwright family. What is it?
Rated: T Wordcount: 8,070
Among the Ponderosa Pines – by Heather-Chrysalis
Summary: A poem about the Ponderosa Pines and the Cartwright family and how similar they are.
Rated G Wordcount: 135
Heap on More Wood! – by Heather-Chrysalis Summary: He only did what he needed to do.
Rating: G Words: 160
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar
I Like Dreamin’ — by Heather-Chrysalis
Summary: A special personal poem about what Bonanza means to me.
Rated: G Wordcount: 478
Once Upon a Midsummer Night – by Heather-Chrysalis
Summary: One summer solstice night, Adam Cartwright time travels with the aid of a fairy ring to the year 1962. He meets an eleven-year-old girl and takes her to Dairy Queen on his motorcycle.
Rated G Wordcount: 3,707
Soiled Dove and the Unicorn (The) – by Heather-Chrysalis
Summary: A look at Sue Ellen Terry from The Sisters. What she felt and thought during her time with Adam.
Rating: T Wordcount: 3,314
Stranger in a Strange Word – Heather-Chrysalis
Summary: Adam time travels to the 21st Century to visit his girlfriend. He discovers that she has been abducted by the Abominable Snowman and sets out to rescue her. A series of other fantasy elements and creatures appear in this story.
Rated T Wordcount: 35, 488
Storm (The) – by Heather Chrysalis
Summary: One stormy night, Adam seeks shelter at a house and finds a young woman living all alone. Not willing to deny their attraction for the other, passion ensues.
Rated: R Wordcount: 9,329 SEXUALLY EXPLICIT
Velvet Captive — by Heather Chrysalis
Summary: A Saloon girl spends a very special night with Adam Cartwright.
Rated: R (sexually explicit) Wordcount: 6,055
Velveting the Cowboy – By Heather Chrysalis
Summary: Adam Cartwright has more erotic encounters with the free-spirited Velvet. A sequel to Velvet Captive, though this story can be read on its own.
Rated: R Wordcount: 8,886 SEXUALLY EXPLICIT