Summer 1871: Adam and his family journey back to the Ponderosa. The story involves a Wedding! Babies! Tragedy (at least that’s what Hoss thinks when Bridget puts him on a diet), and Adventure! (Adam and Hoss and the Army Survey of Nevada & California through Death Valley). No need for warnings

Bonanza Ballads 3 

A story prompted by the title of the Bee Gees song.

While Ben, Adam and Hoss are busy with the branding,  Hop Sing and Little, Little Joe head to town and find they have important business waiting for them.

Sequel to “Beginnings – East Meets West” and “The Journey.” Adam and Kate’s life together continues.

Penning from Prop - challenge - Story behind the Chinese Lanterns.

When Little Joe suddenly becomes ill after returning from San Francisco, it puts the Cartwrights in a turmoil.

Little Joe is home with Hop Sing, with Joe getting ready for the Halloween dance in Virginia City. However, his preparations come to a screeching halt when an unexpected, and frightening, visitor arrives. Now the only one who can save Joe is Hop Sing, but the question is- will he get there in time?

My words: Villian- Mirror/ Hero- Hop Sing/ Plot Element- Poision

Father's Day rolls around, and Hoss brings home a unique gift for Ben. The only problem is, it's annoying, insulting, and likes to sit on people's heads.

Written for June Penning from Prompts 2016. The prompt involved a Father's Day present, a thunder/rain storm, and a burnt roast. This is the alternate, longer version that stemmed from it. 

Adam comforts Joe in the aftermath of Marie's death.

Disclaimer:  I do not own any of the recognizable Bonanza characters or the setting created by David Dotort.  No copyright infringement is intended. 

Written for A Winter's Tale challenge. It's the dead of winter and Ben collapses. Adam is out training his dog, Hop Sing feels helpless, Joe is too young to help so the burden falls on Hoss who feels less than up for it. 

A new school teacher comes to town and Adam and Hoss fear their little brother is growing too attached to her. Little do they know that the real danger is to their father. Will Ben's heart break if he dares to love again, and what secrets does this mysterious woman hold?

Hoss faces a tremendous challenge.

Joe leaves the Ponderosa ranch house and moves to his new home with his bride. This was originally a submission for a Bonanza Ballads challenge.  This is part of a series "A Time For Everything".

WHN for Return to Honor.  Will Cartwright adjusts to life on the Ponderosa.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Cartwrights or Bonanza.  No copyright infringement is intended.  This story is intended for entertainment and no money was made.

Written for 2016's celebration of Dan Blocker's birthday on Boomers.  

Lena and Charles Hoffweister have come to the Ponderosa for their annual December visit bringing tales of Germany's Wienachsten and its mystical creatures.  As strange things begin to happen in the ranch house, Hoss Cartwright becomes convinced that St. Nick's man-servant, a feller he calls 'K-necked', has come to bring judgment on them all.  

Summary: Adam receives a telegram from Laura that Will has disappeared. She wants his help to find him again. Little does he know that his search is going to take him out of this world.

A Bonanza/Lost in Space cross-over story.

Little Joe Cartwright pushes through a snowstorm and arrives home to find things not as they should be.  He knows where his pa and brothers are - but where is Hop Sing? 

It is 1847 and such a winter had never been seen!  Snowstorms and squalls.  Sleet and ice.  Winds so ferocious they built drifts high as a man.  Driven by a need to escape the memory of his late wife, Ben Cartwright ventures out into a frozen landscape and becomes lost.  As he seeks a way to survive, he has no way of knowing that another member of the family has become lost as well.  Will the killer snow claim two Cartwright lives?

Just before Christmas Ben Cartwright makes a choice he will soon regret. He allows his twelve-year-old son, Joseph, to help the young woman who is filling in for Abigail Jones over the holidays find her way home. Little does Ben know that the blue sky of morning will soon become the deep gray of an approaching storm, and that his son and his teacher will need a miracle to survive.

Written for the Heat of the Moment Summer Challenge. A summer camping trip  turns into disaster for Ben, Hoss, and Hop Sing. 

Although there have been many stories of Adam living with Indians, I have tried to make certain I have not duplicated any plots. This is an attempt at reinvention of canon, of having Adam taken by Indians as a young boy and later, as an adult, when meeting up again with his father, unable to determine what his action will be--revelation or first revenge on the man who abandoned him. An AU. The title is a paraphrase of Romans 9:13.

Hoss remembers Adam's first dog.

A sequel to both 'Doubt That the Stars Are Fire' and 'Thirty Six Ways Out of Trouble'.  It has been five years since Joe Cartwright took Bella Carnaby as his wife and nearly twenty since he first met Rosey O'Rourke – a woman he knows his father loves, but one that life and time has conspired to keep away from the Ponderosa. A new threat and an old enemy appear to threaten the Cartwrights – will the end of their collective tale be joy, or tragedy?

Summary: Joe needs to retrieve a rifle he'd left at Eagle's Nest but is too afraid to get it. When he goes to see Adam to try to talk over his problem, Adam is reminded of an incident that occurred when Little Joe was only five. A WHI/WHIB/WHN for the episode, "Between Heaven and Earth."

Thanksgiving is coming, and strange things start happening at the Ponderosa that involve a giant turkey that only Joe can see, cattle rustlers, and strange grounds for romance.

Written for NaNoWriMo 2017.

A sequel to my other story, "Was it a Dream... Or Was it For Real?"