The Most Beautiful Poem (by HazelMom)
Summary: The family is in tatters, one brother promising to kill another, while another drinks his way to… What happened and can the family been redeemed? Rating: T (30,620 words)
Author’s note: This is a long story and I put a lot of heart into it. There are some different time frames. I hope you have no trouble following it.
I would like to dedicate this story to an old high school friend of mine who understands how Hoss is feeling a great deal better than I do.
Adam and the Stagecoach (by Grimesgirl)
Summary: What could be so difficult in helping out a friend?
Rating: K (1,090 words)
Who Did It? (by bahj)
Summary: There’s a broken window on the Ponderosa but who’s guilty?
Rated: Family Friendly / Word count: 1025
Tumbleweed (by freyakendra)
Summary: Two brothers plagued by accidents and misfortune, one young man haunted by his own brothers’ deaths, a deadly outlaw with no conscience…and the Cartwright family caught in the crossfire. Follow the trail of the Nevada Territory’s most notorious outlaw through the words of Tumbleweed, a writer aiming to turn a killer into a legend, until that trail dead-ends on the Ponderosa. After the shooting stops, will tragedy be avoided, or simply rewritten?
Rated: T Word Count: 14,900
Kings Over Aces (by freyakendra)
Summary: A businessman is tired of playing by the rules and uses Ben’s sons to manipulate Ben, himself. It falls to Sheriff Roy Coffee, Deputy Clem Foster and a very determined Hop Sing to prevent the Cartwright family from falling like a house of cards. What results is a high stakes game in which Ben must gamble his full house against his rival’s hidden aces.
Rating: T (33, 700 words)
Deborah Wilde (by Krystyna)
Summary: The Wilde family arrive in Virginia City, the eldest daughter becoming the focus of Joe and Hoss’ attentions, causing chaos within the family while Mr.Wilde’s peculiarities force Adam into eating a surfeit of cake.
Rated: K+ (40,090 words)
The Contest (by bahj)
Summary: Hoss finds out you can be a winner in more ways than one.
Rated: Family Friendly / Word count: 1085
Caught in the Act (by faust)
“You gotta be smart, boy, fast…” Who outsmarts whom?
870 words, rated K
Forever (by Rider)
Summary: Part one of my WHI “Forever” series “Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Cartwright” Joe meets and marries Alice Harper.
Rated: K+ (2,020 words)
Forever Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Sunny, With a Chance of Rain (by MissJudy)
Summary: A stage crash has killed everyone on board…including Adam Cartwright. While Paul Martin has made a “best guess ID” of the “remains,” and even though Adam’s most personal possessions were found in the wreckage, Ben refuses to believe it is Adam. Hoss and Joe begin a journey of discovery with their father as a mystery develops that includes another man in black, attempts at blackmail and the eventual acceptance of what seems ovious – that Adam is gone. It becomes the story of two families facing the loss of a child and a woman whose care of a deathly ill stranger may restore one of these families to completeness.
Rated: T WC 45,000
The Lineshack (by slaine89)
Summary: My response entry for the Chaps and Spurs Mega Challenge. The three Cartwright boys lose their horses and have to seek shelter in a shack. Rated: K (6,265 words)
A Broken Resolution (by Cheaux)
Summary: Joe has every intention of keeping his New Year’s resolutions, but you know what they say about good intentions.
Rated: T (945 words)
Raising Amelia (by Meg)
Summary: Amelia’s mother Catherine snooty over bearing sister Martha makes an unexpected visit to the Ponderosa determine to tear Amelia from her father and brothers apart. Amelia’s P.O.V
Ages: Amelia 12; Joe 18; Hoss 24; Adam 30
Amelia Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
The Devil Among Us (by Cheaux)
Summary: A missing scene from Season 12’s The Night Virginia City Died.
Rated: T+ WC 2800
A Christmas Carol in Virginia City (by TracyT)
Summary: Celebrate Christmas in Virginia City and uncover a mystery.
Rated: K WC 16,500
