Thanks, Pal (by EileenK)
Story Summary: Adam is severely injured and when he wants to die, he comes face to face with his Guardian Angel, who appears several times throughout the story. A sort of spoof of the movie “It’s A Wonderful Life”, but with a different twist.
Rating and Reader Alerts: Rating is G even though there is pain, suffering and sickness in this story.
Words: 9,500
Protective Urges (by Rona)
Summary: A series of mishaps and an illness show the Cartwrights that it’s not just Ben who has protective urges.
Rated: T (11,425 words)
Fondue #1 – Marie, My Fondue (by Robin)
Summary: Joe asks Ben about his mother, and learns more than he wanted to.
Rating: T (980 words)
Fondue Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
Coming Home for Christmas (by Rona)
Summary: Christmas is fast approaching on the Ponderosa, but for the Cartwrights, it is not the season to be jolly, for Joe has been missing for two months. What has happened to him and will he ever come home?
Rated: T (11,235 words)
A Kindness Cherished (by EileenK)
Summary: A story of curiosity, kindness, friendship, and compassion on Adam’s part.
Rating and Reader Alerts: G
Words: 10,800
Blundered Seduction (by DebbieB)
Summary: Caught with his pants down and in a compromising situation by the one person he’d least likely want to find him as such, Joe learns three valuable lessons; no one ever died of embarrassment, chose your friends carefully, and being 16 and still a virgin is nothing to be ashamed of.
Rated: R (Has one scene with sexual content) (16,700 words)
Please contact the author via eMail to receive a copy of this story DLB1248@aol.com
Cooking with Steamy Julia (by Robin)
Summary: Cooking isn’t the only thing happening in the kitchen, and elsewhere.
Rating: M (715 words)
A Camping Story (by BeckyS)
Summary: Adam takes four-year old Little Joe on a camping trip and a lesson in vocabulary.
Rating: G (2,400 words)
The Course of True Love … (by Rona)
Summary: A beautiful and very young widow comes to town and Joe falls for her. Is he destined for a happy ending this time?
Rated: T (13,325 words)
Brothers (by Rona)
Summary: While searching for a missing ranch hand in the snow, Joe and Adam learn what it really means to have a brother to rely on.
Rated: T (8,250 words)
Ties That Bind (by DebbieB)
Summary: Adam and Joe both learn that the ties that bind as brothers can never be severed, not by a lying woman, a rockslide or certain death.
Rated PG WC 13,900
Worth Fighting For (by Rona)
Summary: After falling out, Adam and Joe discover what is worth fighting for.
Rated: T (6,865 words)
In Memoriam (by Deborah)
Series: Adam In The Outback (10 of 16)
Summary: This is the tenth story in my “Adam in the Outback” series. Adam and Bronwen experience the most devastating loss any parent has to face. They, and the rest of the Cartwright family, must struggle to accept their loss and deal with their grief.
Rating: T WC 54,000
Adam In The Outback Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.
Through the Valley of the Shadow of Death (by DebbieB)
Summary: Has God ever tested your faith? How do you think you scored? Ben’s faith is tested to the utmost when Joe is crushed by a fallen horse and the only way to relieve his suffering is for Ben to give his son back to God.
Rated G WC 6500
Singled Out (by Rona)
Summary: As the only witness willing to testify to a murder, Joe finds himself singled out.
Rated: T (10,095 words)
