BTR Sourdough Starters #04 – August 2018 (by BZTrailriders)
Summary: “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.” – Winnie the Pooh. Use this quote in a story of no more than 600 words.
Rating: G, Word Count: 2658
Refuge (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: Adam is back, but will he stay, and what happened to him while he was gone that he won’t talk about? His family has more questions than answers, but Adam isn’t one to talk until he’s ready or has no choice.
rating = T word count = 26,557
Together in Darkness (by Puchi Ann)
Summary: Written for the 2018 Missing Man Challenge. I have always felt that the drama of “To Die in Darkness” would have been intensified if Ben had experienced its situation with a son, rather than with Candy, much as I like him. This challenge seemed like the perfect opportunity to explore that idea.
Rated: K+ Word Count: 14,833
Gusty Gumption (by PSW)
Summary: A little vignette following (at some point later) the events of ‘A Dime’s Worth of Glory’. Written for the Sept 1 Pinecone challenge and expanded for inclusion here. Prompt: Whisky for my men, beer for my horses (by Scott Emerich/Toby Keith). Contains phrases from both the song and the episode throughout.
Rating: G Word Count: 628
Another Stranger In Town (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: This is the crossover story for the August 2018 challenge — Adam goes to Dodge City and meets the cast of Gunsmoke in a WHN for the episode of that series, A Stranger In Town.
rating = T word count = 8046
Another Stranger in Town Series, links for all the stories of this series included.
Joe (by A-P)
Summary: A group of poems about Joe Cartwright .
Rating: K Word Count: 578
The Witness Tree (by AC1830)
Summary: Adam has been back from college for a few months but is having a hard time settling in with the ranch hands and his brothers. Through the wisdom of his father he learns some lessons about being a boss and a brother. A What-Happens-Years-Before the episode The Grand Swing.
Rating – K+, WC – 9978
The Jailbreak (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: Joe has talked Hoss into another scheme although for a good cause, and Ben confronts Roy about it in this sometimes serious, sometimes flippant story.
rating = pg word count = 1064
Ebony Anonymity (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: Sitting in a campsite in the dark, two brothers can share what might be difficult to admit in other circumstances and perhaps say more than might be prudent to divulge. This is an expanded pinecone.
rating = T word count = 1047
A Masquerade (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: A set of new projects brings with it a set of new problems, new partners, and a dangerous foe. The story continues the adventures of Adam and Kitty that started in At Odds.
rating = T word count = 13, 986
At Odds Series, links to all the stories for this series included.
The Flume (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: The timber industry is booming. Anxious to truly use his skills and attempt to make the Ponderosa financially secure for years to come, Adam proposes constructing a narrow gauge rail line and flume from Tahoe to Empire City. But there is a price for becoming a major player in this high stakes game.
Written for the 2018 Ponderosa Paddlewheel Poker Tournament.
Rated: T 8,870 words
Then and Now (by Cheaux)
Summary: Two sides of the same coin, one looks forward, one looks backward and they both struggle in the present. This post Season 14 story is set in 1878 and includes most all of the principal cast from the series run.
Written for the 2018 Ponderosa Paddlewheel Poker Tournament.
Rated: T 10,000 words
At Odds (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: In this story, Adam has returned home but is not sure of what to do and if he should stay. It’s a romance, but a bumpy one as there are detours involving all consuming work, tragedy, and life threatening trouble that will fully engage his mind and his heart until he has found his place and his future.
rating = T word count = 27599
At Odds Series, links to all the stories for this series included.
A Jack of Spades (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: This began as a Pinecone but I couldn’t fit it all in there so here is the rest of the story — Little Joe Cartwright finds that having skill with a pistol and a fast draw isn’t the same as being good in a gunfight, and he has second thoughts about whether he should have gotten himself into such a predicament.
rating = T word count = 1156
BTR Sourdough Starters #03 – July 2018 (by BZTrailriders)
Summary: In Tim McGraw’s Live Like You Were Dying, there are the lines “Took a good, long, hard look/At what I’d do if I could do it all again”.
Rating: G, Word Count: 4013
