Captain Joe (by frasrgrl)
Summary: This story is in response to November’s Chaps and Spurs Challenge. Joe on the high seas.
Word Count: 546 Rated: K
Autumn’s Story (by deansgirl)
Summary: Adam is awake now and ready to tell his story.
Rated: K+ (1,685 words)
Autumn Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
Gettysburg (by faust)
A dying man’s last thoughts, a family’s grief…and a glimpse of hope?
Warning: character death
1,400 words, rated T
Secrets (by MonicaSJ)
Summary: Ben extends a business trip in San Francisco when he meets a mature, polished younger woman who comes from a well-known, well-to-do family. Joe, Hoss and Adam believe they have each met this same young woman before under questionable circumstances and each kept those meetings to himself, but are all disturbed when their father introduces her as his fiancé.
Feedback: All, good or bad. If bad, constructive. Reader Alert: Adult themes Rated: T WC 22,000
She Brought Happiness (by MonicaSJ)
Summary: A bracelet…a trinket from a time past and the memories it carried…Adam helps a young mother running from a legacy of sorrow.
Rated: K+ (17.830 WORDS)
Vengeance Is Mine (by MonicaSJ)
Summary: A year after the worst time of his life, Adam Cartwright sees his old nemesis. No one else does.
Rated: K+ WC 28,000
Death Valley (by MonicaSJ)
Summary: Joe has been kidnapped and taken into Death Valley where an Indian War rages against the white man. Adam hires a mixed heritage guide to navigate the dangers in the desert and deal with the two tribes that live there as he searches for Joe.
Rated: T WC 19,500
The Death Valley series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
A Lost Bonanza (by BnzaGal)
Summary: When I read the challenge to write a “Spooky” poem or story for ML’s birthday challenge I had to think about it. What would be spooky… frightening, horrifying.
Rated: K (1,255 words)
Autumn’s Surprise (by deansgirl)
Summary: Autumn is setting around the Ponderosa and with it comes a very dear and long awaited surprise.
Rated: K+ (1,180 words)
Autumn Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
The House on Kay Street (by Bonanzaluver)
Summary: Adam and Joe are asked to fix up an old house for a friend of Ben’s who is about to move in to it. What they find is that there is someone or something opposed to their doing so. A little Halloween story narrated by Joe that I made last year. This is the first story I have posted anywhere but BW. Please let me know what you think!
Rated: K+ (3,200 words)
Cougar Kill (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: Written in response to a Cartwriters challenge in which the first sentence was given. While looking for strays, fifteen-year-old Joe spots some tracks that he feels compelled to investigate, despite knowing the objections his family would raise.
Rated: K WC 1700
The Stronger Bond (by bahj)
Summary: The Cartwright brothers fall under a powerful spell that threatens not only a life, but also loyalty.
Rated: PG / Word count: 3290
Love, Honour and Obey (by ansinico)
Summary: A conflict over a woman, an impending marriage, and a murder threaten to tear the heart out of the family, but whose heart and which Cartwright?
The hangman’s noose beckons, Adam treads the road to hell as he tries to piece together the fragments of chaos and salvage what, if anything is left of his family.
Rated: MA (83,931)
A Night On His Own (by frasrgrl)
Summary: This story is my contribution to the 2012 Michael Landon’s Birthday Literary Challenge to write a spooky story. On a foggy All Hallows Eve, Joe has made camp by himself. What possibly could be out beyond the fog?
Word Count: 1,686 Rated: K+
The Honey Tomb (by bahj)
Summary: A dark and mysterious cave, a whispering pendant, and a ruthless enemy. It’s just an old legend, right?
Rated: PG-13 for scariness. (Well, sort of) / Word count: 3510
