Someday Soon (by Wrangler)
Summary: Sorting through a box of mementos, Ben finds a gift Little Joe made when he was five and recalls how it helped the Cartwrights through their first Christmas without Marie.
Rating T, WC 12,520
Ponderosa Yuletide Wit (by wx4rmk)
Summary: A poem about Adam’s clever wit bringing joy and cheer during the holidays.
Rating: G (210 words)
Written for the 2025 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
No More Promises (By MelissaR1992)
Summary: Alice Cartwright’s life is turned upside down when her estranged uncle arrives in town, carrying a dark secret.
Rating: PG Word Count: 14,086
Part of the Forever Reimagined series, links to all stories included within.
The Long Road Home (by CareBear)
SUMMARY: Ben sets out on a mission of mercy in the days before Christmas that turns into a fight for his life when he tries to return home
RATING: G WORD COUNT: 8156
Written for the 2025 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
The Twelve Trees of Christmas (by Tavia42)
Summary: Joe and Hoss form Cartwright Brothers’ Christmas Trees, selling trees to familiar faces all over Virginia City.
Rating: G | Word Count: 4,133
Written for the 2025 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
A Prairie Christmas (by SJRCartwright)
Summary: A vignette of Christmas on the trail
Rating: G (985 words)
Written for the 2025 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
You Can Bet on It (by PatD in PA)
SUMMARY: With Christmas just around the corner, Little Joe Cartwright learns exactly how far his Yankee Granite Head of a big brother will go, just how much he will do, in order to keep him safe.
RATING: PG
WORD COUNT: 10,301
Written for the 2025 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar
Calling Up Angels (By Wrangler)
Summary: When a little boy is left in Little Joe’s care, he hopes to adopt him however problems arise which might prevent the adoption. A tale of love and loss.
Rating T, WC 19,382
Your Time Is Gonna Come (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: I dug my fingernails into the flesh of my palms as the ground reeled beneath me like the deck of a ship in a summer squall. A trickle of dust and small stones rained down as the walls of the Ophir Mine creaked and groaned like an animal in its death throes. A WHIB for the episode “The Philip Diedesheimer Story”.
Rating: K+
Word Count: 755
Peace on Earth (by Pat D in PA)
Summary: A blizzard and a case of the flu conspire to make the Cartwright boys wonder if Christmas would find it’s way to the Ponderosa
Rating: K/G (10,837 words)
Vengeance is Mine (By MelissaR1992)
Summary: As Joe and Alice prepare for the arrival of their first child, their happiness is short-lived when the sinister Damion unexpectedly returns with a vengeance. This is a WHI story based on the two-part episode, Forever.
Rating: PG Word Count: 13,861
Part of the Forever Reimagined series, links to all stories included within.
Queen of the Dunes (by CareBear)
Summary: When Adam and his wife welcome a second child, the household is thrown into chaos. The changes leave their oldest feeling so overlooked that she becomes convinced that no one will miss her if she disappears. Being a Cartwright, she decides to put that theory to the test.
Rating: PG WC: 15,160
Hooked on a Feeling (by Annie K Cowgirl)
Summary: One minute he was standing there and the next, he was sprawled face down in the dirt….Booth Shannon’s thoughts after the shootout between him and Little Joe. The Trap. Rating: T (for mentions of blood) Word Count: 834
Finding My Place (wx4rmk)
Summary: Jamie Hunter struggled with having a home and people who cared about him. To sort out his feelings he turns to his journal.
Rating: G, Word Count: 1323
I’ll Always Remember (by MelissaR1992)
Summary: Eighteen-year-old Candy Canaday is in love with seventeen-year-old, Ann Purcell, but her disapproving father, Colonel John Purcell, feels Candy is not suitable enough for his young daughter.
Rating: PG.
Word Count: 21,524
