Bonanza Brand FanFiction Library

Summary: Fourteen-year-old Hoss has a plan.  With the help of Little Joe and Old Ned, he may just be able to surprise Pa and Adam this Christmas.
Rating:  G  3,900 words

Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary:  A benefactor arranges for the modernization of the Ponderosa.
Rating:  G  1,625 words

Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary:  Ben wants to indulge Adam by giving him the one present he requested, but wherever does one buy a battery for a thirteen-year-old?
Rating:  G  2,325 words

Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary: A Christmas story. Joe and Hoss are heading out to control the herd
Rating: G Word Count: 3900

Summary: One of the Cartwrights gets a big surprise for his birthday. Written for Dan Blocker’s Birthday.  Rating: G, Word Count: 2294 A New Friend   A horse is a thing of beauty – head raised proudly, mane and tail flying in the wind as it parades around. It’s enough…

Summary: Little Joe thinks an ornament is too ugly for the Cartwright tree. Adam has the opposite opinion in this slice-of-life vignette.
Rating: G 610 words

Summary:  After the death of his dearest friend, Joe takes a downward spiral.  Can his father stop him before he surrenders to old temptations?  This story follows my story, Absolute Faith.
Rating:  T  (24,890)

Summary: Joe and a saloon dancer accidentally meet, and more problems arise than Joe ever expected.
Rating: PG Word Count: 19000

Summary: Young Hoss helps a young stranger without telling his family, but did his heart overrule his wisdom?  

Rating: G

Word Count: 1902

Summary: How might a change in an episode early in the canon of Bonanza, change the episodes that followed? This is a collection of stories to show how life in the Cartwright family and in Virginia City would reflect the difference, while you try to figure what happened.

Rating: PG     Word Count: 28534

Summary: Have you ever wondered why Joe is such a good shot? Maybe that’s how it happened.
Rating: PG Word Count: 15000

Summary: This is a prequel with Adam home from college at about 23, Hoss at about age 17, and Joe at about age 11. Returning from a trip to Sacramento, Adam has two disturbing encounters, one with someone he thought could be a friend and another with outlaws. Then he has another one with his father. The rest of the story develops from those until the issues can be resolved.
Rating – T  Word Count – 32,154

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

Joe let himself smile for half a second before sobering and shaking his head. “I’ve known you a long time and I don’t think I’ve ever seen you like this. Maybe you got this way when I was too young to notice or wasn’t around to remember, but… I don’t know, seeing you down here tonight all alone, I sort of got worried.” Or, after Laura Dayton’s departure, Joe finds his oldest brother in need of some consolation. A WHN for the “Triangle.”

Word Count: 2,316   Rating: PG

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

Canon refers to Ben leaving the Ponderosa for a time after Marie’s death. This story presents a possibility for how Adam managed during this time. (This is an Old Ned story.)

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

Rated R      Wordcount: 8, 886
SEXUALLY EXPLICIT

This is a compilation of five vignettes that take place on Ben Cartwright’s trip West.
Rating: K+ Words: 2274

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

Summary: A Saloon girl spends a very special night with Adam Cartwright.

Rated R Wordcount: 6, 055
SEXUALLY EXPLICIT

Summary: A missing scene from Emily. Joe finds an ambushed money transport with a dead and injured man lying next to it. He fires three shots to call for help, but he gets shot in the back. Hoss and Candy arrive at the scene shortly after Deputy Wade.
Rating: PG Word Count: 1600

Summary: Not exactly a WHN for My Brother’s Keeper, but the action takes place after that story and involves some reflection on its events, as once again Adam finds himself pondering whether to move back East to a more “civilized” country. Rating: K+ Word Count: 2,051

Summary: A tribute from Adam, Hoss and Joe for Father’s Day (transcribed by Puchi Ann)

Rating: K

Word Count: 88

Summary: Three men, imprisoned in the Virginia City Jail, have been charged with committing murder and other brutal acts of cruelty. According to the scuttlebutt, the attorney representing them is determined to see his clients acquitted, and will stop at nothing to make it so.  Gossip, lurid speculation, and rumor stoke the fear, anger and complete bewilderment of Virginia City’s citizens. leading to the unthinkable, catching Ben, Adam, and Hoss up in the midst of the turmoil.  Sequel to Mark of Kane.
T
Word Count: 39,168

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

Summary: Instead of excitement and joy over Adam’s imminent return from school in Boston, unexpected emotions and personal fears leave the Cartwrights struggling in their welcome. This story is comprised of chapters told from a family member’s POV.

Rating: G

Words: 26442

Summary:  In honor of all mothers who are still with us in person or in spirit, Bonanza Brand presents this Mother Day’s compilation containing the work Inca, MonicaSJ, faust, Southplains, Krystyna, Patina, DJK, and Sibylle–authors who responded to the 2012 Pinecone Challenge prompt:   “Mama died today…”  from The Stranger by Albert Camus.  These wonderfully creative writers had to limit their entries to under 500 words.  The stories are presented in the order of posting.

Rating: T Word Count:  3,880

Adam’s last weeks at college back East have him dealing with accolades, accusations, rivals, revenge, and possible expulsion.
Rating: Teen for mature references Word count: 7,942