PONDEROSA NIGHTMARES 2013
Thank you Bahj for the kick-start with the words...
ADAM - TEACHER - WHIP
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.
Tracy's Autumn at the Ranch Challenge.
Homeward bound after four years in Boston. Adam, after witnessing a glorious autumn sunrise has a sudden and uncharacteristic change of mind.
Penning from Prop - challenge - Story behind the Chinese Lanterns.
Prop Fiction - March Challenge – The Blue Chair.
Just how did that chair get a place of honour at the Cartwright hearthstone? Ansi explains.
Springtime Challenge
Ater a long harsh winter Ben decides his sons - deserving or not - would benefit from a day in town. But, will Pa's grand idea bode well?
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A conglomeration of strange, inexplicable, incredulous occurrences happening within seven days all involving the Cartwrights puts the family under suspicion. But, suspicion of what? Can Roy Coffee make head or tail of what is going on?
Hop Sing takes to spirits, is he the only person who knows what's afoot?!
Pa and Little Joe are heading for a showdown, can Adam mend the rift without breaking a solemn promise to his father and telling Joe The Truth
Waiting out a blizzard, holed up in a deserted town.
With Christmas around the corner, Ben's boys are far from the safety and comfort of home.
That's assuming they do make it home ...
Autumn at the Ranch - Seasonal Challenge.
Finished his day's work early, memories of childhood keep Hoss from the straight and narrow homeward path. Will the big man make it home sound in mind and body?
Ponderosa Prospects - April
My take on the prompt below will leave the Cartwright family with unprecedented changes in their daily life and the running of the Ponderosa Ranch.
Situation Prompt ...
Ben is late for a family meeting - one HE demanded everyone in the household attend. When he finally comes home, he's sporting a shiner - a black - but his eye isn't the only thing that's hurt!
Summer challenge. The Cartwrights endure a summer drought. Tempers are short and problems enlarged. But, when disaster beckons the family stand side by side!
One day in the life of Joseph Francis Cartwright, or is it just a moment, or a week, or a year, who knows he doesn't...the day started well and then rapidly tumbled downhill...there will be trouble, a gal and of course some SJS...
Will an impending marriage be the beginning to the end of the Cartwright family.
Can one woman break the bond between father and son, set brother against brother.
SJS, SBS, JAM, JPM, and more.
Little Joe and his friend Jimmy Feathers become embroiled in a sequence of mysterious events or is it just all one big bad dream a nightmare or even a premonition? There's only one way to find out!
Life on the ranch has struck a calm, happy medium. Pa Cartwright, now a proud grandpa. As like the rest of the Cartwright's Ben is blissfully unaware of the danger lurking. Only one man has an inkling - a portent of the horror which awaits!
A fine day out for the Cartwright brothers brings about fond memories and a glimpse into the future.
Ponderosa Prospects – Feb 2019
Going on six-years-old Joe Cartwright has big trouble called school looming in front of him ... SCHOOL ... what was he going to do?!
Ponderosa Nightmares 2022
The pick of Virginia City's youths and males are invited to a party but who will be or want to be the chosen one?
Ponderosa Nightmares IV 2017
Why was Joe so eager to return?
Why was Hoss scared to go?
What was Adam going to do?
Ben returns from San Francisco with a mysterious package that rekindles memories of his years at sea. And a story that he has kept to himself which he now feels is the right time to relate to his sons.
Tracy's Seasonal Prompt - Summer 2020
Having serious doubt regarding his decisions Ben descends into a gloom which only his children and the unexpected meeting with a stranger can lift him from.
Penning from Prop - The Red Blanket.
Who did the blanket belong to? Was it Marie's, Ben's or even Little Joe's? What has Hop Sing, if anything to do with the blanket? Is there a story behind this bright, patterned Indian rug? Or are there secrets that can never be told?
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.
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.