Searching for Life (by AC1830)
Summary: When Ben and Inger left her brother Gunnar in Illinois (Inger, My Love), he was searching for his purpose in life, heading to the Canadian gold fields. The Last Viking showed he maintained his wild side. But how would his life have turned out if he had listened to his sister’s words? A WHI for The Last Viking.
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2018 Ancestry Challenge – Several relatives of the Cartwrights have turned up from time to time. Are there more and what effect do they have on the Cartwrights?
Rating – K+, WC – 5547
Being Kind (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: What is kindness? Kindness can get you into a relationship that is toxic not only to you but to others. There can be serious consequences to being kind.
Rating = T Word count = 3556
And Then Along Comes Rupert (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Long-distant cousin Rupert brings greetings and glad tidings to the Ponderosa.
Rating: T (2,225 words)
A submission for the 2018 Ancestry Challenge: Several relatives of the Cartwrights have turned up from time to time. Are there more and what affect do they have on the Cartwrights?
Playing Games (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: There are times when one of the Cartwright ends up playing the game of romance even when he hadn’t planned on it and didn’t want to play, but it gets even more complicated when a brother wants to play too.
rating = T word count = 3369
First Kiss Again — Book Four (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: This is the fourth story in the First Kiss series: a cattle drive, a horse sale, the desert, outlaws, a desert rat, and all sorts of trouble for the family in this one before it all gets sorted out. This concluded the Bonano and NaNoWriMo story challenges.
Rating = T Word count = 20517
First Kiss Series, links to stories of this series included.
High Finance (Or, How to Keep Your Mutton-Headed Sons From Getting Robbed) (by pjb)
SUMMARY: Oh, the lengths a father must go to in order to protect his sons. . . .
Rating: K Word count: 1,100
I Loved Rachel, but Benjamin I Hated (by Ahdavis)
Summary: Ben is anything but delighted when his mother and two sisters arrive at the Ponderosa for an unannounced visit. But as his mother and sisters stay on at the ranch, he must confront the past and try to make sense of a very bitter feud between them. But when he faces total ruin by a member of his only family, he just might find the healing he’s been searching for and finally make peace with the past and with his family at the same time.
Rating: T/PG-13 (Word Count: 18, 978)
Me First (by McFair_58)
Summary: A missing scene for the episode ‘A Matter of Circumstance’, which is one of my favorites. Left alone in the house with what may be a dying Joe, Hoss has a conversation with himself and makes a promise.
Rated G Word count: 2912
Impasse (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: My entry for the Ancestry Challenge. Ben has had three wives and they all had relatives, many of whom he never knew. One shows up with a selfish ulterior motive focused on one son.
Rating = T Word count = 8308
The Falling Out (by MissJudy)
Summary: The Cartwright family should have returned to normal after Señor and Delores Tenino left for Mexico, but it hasn’t. Hoss, Adam and Joe have been surly and avoiding one another since the lovely young woman left, and Ben can’t understand what’s driving it. He senses that what had started as a competition to win the young lady’s heart, had left some unexpected wounds behind. When circumstances and harsh words fracture his family even more, Ben decides he must force his sons to take stock of what they’re about to lose, in the one way he thinks will work. A What Happened Later story, for Ponderosa Matador.
Rating: K Word Count: 22,960
Gently, Full of Grace (by JC)
Summary: Two Cartwright lives take a dangerous turn during a trip abroad. Will they ever be able to go home again? (Part of the Ties That Bind AU series)
Rating: K+ (4372 words)
Ties That Bind Series, links to stories of this series included.
The Poetry of Ben and Adam Cartwright (by JC)
Summary: With such a well of inspiration from which to draw, one could imagine them putting pen to paper on occasion. Ben’s “Journey to the Sea” is an homage to his three wives; “Girl in the Moonlight” was composed by Adam.
Rating K+ (WC 290)
First Kiss–Book Three: Joe and Ben (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: The third story in the First Kiss series has Joe still scheming. Of course Ben won’t scheme, but that doesn’t mean he won’t be affected by the schemes Joe has hatched. The story of Adam and Anita continues first as the catalyst for a scheme and then as a crisis envelops the two.
Rating = T Word count = 23,409
First Kiss Series, links to stories of this series included.
Warm Milk and Memories (by PSW)
Summary: In some ways, Adam and Jamie really aren’t so different.
Rating: K Word Count: 2845
Scenes From Our Next Life series, links to stories of this series included.
Never Quote Me the Odds (by McFair_58)
Summary: Ben Cartwright had thought the worst thing that could happen was that his son, Hoss, was shot in back by mistake. But like the other time Hoss was shot – by Red Twilight – Little Joe was in danger too. His brother could be dying and Joe is nowhere in sight. What’s going on?
Rated PG – references to drunkeness
Word Count – 4406
