Je T’aime, Ma (by pulitzer2016)
Summary: Eleven-year-old Adam never wanted another stepmother, but now that Marie is on the Ponderosa – and six months’ pregnant – there’s little he can do but be polite and try not to think of the beloved stepmother he lost. But when Ben goes away on a business trip and Marie is injured, Adam must ride alone for help. Along the way, he realizes that things have a way of becoming precious, even when we don’t intend them to.
Rating: K Word Count: 12,446
Yesterday a Jealous Man, aka Today’s Lonely Fool (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: The aftermath from She Walks in Beauty
Rating: K+ (1,550 words)
Yesterday Series, links to stories included.
Pride and Ponderosa (by Sandspur)
Summary: What happens when Jane Austen’s ultimate chick-fic, “Pride & Prejudice,” crosses into the burly, macho, he-man world of Bonanza? Confusion? Kidnappings? Crossover characters from other series like “Bronco” and “the Big Valley”? Anything can happen—and anything does!
Rating: T. Totally clean, but one description of an unseemly death. WC 86,200
Mama’s Angel (by Ellie248)
SUMMARY: A Cartwright Christmas Past. A tradition begun.
Rating K (1,407 words)
Ben and Miss Barbara (by Robin)
Summary: Between the trial and Paiutes, tensions are running high in and around Virginia City.
Rating: T (9,410 words)
“Neked” Women (by Robin)
Summary: Did Little Joe really see what he thought he saw? Adam can’t believe the implications of Joe’s revelation.
Rating: T (3,800)
Many Shades of Guilt (by Sibylle)
Summary: Guilt and mistakes – nobody is free of them. It’s not only the big guilt following bad deeds that can affect your life, but also mistakes and misinterpretations. There are many shades of guilt, as even the Cartwrights had to learn.
The story is set in 1863 and shows Adam as a substitute teacher.
Rated: K+ Word count: 10354
Bed Time #3 – Bed Time 1848 (by Robin)
Summary: It’s bed time in 1848.
Rating: K (4,420 words)
Bed Time Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Bed Time #2 – Before Bed Time Too (by Robin)
Summary: Another night and another bed time
Rating: T (6,400 words)
Bed Time Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Bed Time #1 – Before Bed Time (by Robin)
Summary: It’s bed time on the Ponderosa for three-year old Little Joe.
Rating: K (6,860 words)
Bed Time Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Courage (by Hart4Ben)
Summary: Little Joe is still wrestling with his fears. WHN for Season 6 Between Heaven and Earth.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 589
Good Intentions (by BettyHT)
Summary: A prequel story with LJ at thirteen, Hoss at nineteen, and Adam at twenty-five. In the first part, Little Joe decides to be good for three weeks as a gift to his father which sets off a chain of events while Adam decides to ride a couple of difficult horses that sets off a different chain of events. Everything comes together as does the family in time for a Christmas celebration. The second part of the story is a WHB for The Quality of Mercy and features Seth in a prominent role.
rating = T (26,563)
A Legacy Deferred (by BluewindFarm)
Summary: Joe is summoned to the Ponderosa for a matter pertaining to an inheritance. Curiously, the letter and recent events in his life reveal his dissatisfaction, and thrust him on a journey of discovery.
Rating: T (16,980 words)
The Nature of Life (by JulieS)
Summary: The next story in this continuing series. Adam is arrested for the murder of Mitch Hawkins. Another matter then arises leaving Joe in a difficult position.
Rated: PG (9342 words)
The Way Things Are series, links to all the stories in the series included.
Where Ghosts Walk (By ellie248)
SUMMARY: Joseph Cartwright returns to the Ponderosa to find everything has changed in his absence – for the worst
Rating K (4,116 words)