A seven year old Joe finally earns the enviable position of picking out the Christmas goose for the family.
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The first Chrismas after Marie died was going to be a sad one. Can Adam and Hoss make the season bright after all?
Will the young Cartwright family have Christmas this year?
Adam comes home for Christmas from college.
With lights in all the windows, the boys are coming home for Christmas!
Written for Ponderosa Nightmares IV. Little Joe finds himself haunted by a whistling figure that he believes is the ghost of a man he killed in self-defense.
On his way home from a Christmas shopping trip in Placerville, Joe is thrown from a spooked horse and left stranded at the bottom of a deep ravine in the midst of a severe snowstorm. Part of the series begun in “Bloodlines,” and includes the addition of a non-cannon character. This story takes place the winter after "Virginia City Detour."
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While picking up his father's Chistmas present in Carson City, Adam decides to pay a vist to Aaron Kaufman and his daughter Rebecca. It just happens to be the first night of Hanukkah and Adam is invited to join in the Festival of Lights.
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For "A Winter's Tale" Challenge. A resentful Adam, under Ben's edict, takes Hoss and Joe sledding on a winter afternoon to "The Hill."
Written for November's fan fiction prop challenge. Each year at Christmas a beautiful lady graces the Cartwright's Ponderosa ranch house. From her post high atop their tree the little angel with cornflower yellow hair watches them. A smile lights her face for she knows that, without her, Ben Cartwright's life would have been very different....
Ponderosa Nightmares IV 2017
Why was Joe so eager to return?
Why was Hoss scared to go?
What was Adam going to do?
Written for Ponderosa Nightmares 2020. Joe tries to help a mysterious girl he met at a carnival.
Christmas is a time for making memories.
Ben Cartwright finds himself lost in reflections of his past.
Hop Sing is struggling to understand a crippling sense of worry that follows him nightly into his dreams. When he seeks out a fortune teller for advice, worry quickly turns to terror when he realizes exactly what he and the Cartwrights are facing.
Ponderosa Nightmares - 2020
Ben is forced to live through one of his worst nightmares.
Little Joe is still considered a little boy by his family even though all he wants for Christmas is grown up presents. (This short story honor Michael Landon, our favorite childish Cartwright, on the 21st anniversayr of his passing.)
It's Christmas and Hop Sing has had enough of cleaning up after the Cartwrights. What will it take to convince him to return to the Ponderosa?
Written for 2012 Ponderosa Nightmares
Little Joe's quest for education by way of one of Adam's treasured books leads him down a dangerous path.
Small crazy things are happening at the Ponderosa. Is it just a coincidence or is it something more? Ponderosa Nightmares Challenge III (2014)
Ponderosa Nightmare V:
Joe volunteers to give Paul Martin needed help with some basic handy-man chores which bring about a terrifying experience and cause the doctor to disclose a catalogue of nightmarish events that were best left hidden in the past.