Joecartwright Stories

This is part of my Forever series. This story is written from Candy's point of view. Candy meets a beautiful young woman during a supply run in Virginia City and falls for her.

This is part of my Forever series. a retelling of the prodigal son story with Joe and Ben. Ever since becoming a husband and father, Joe becomes fed up with working for his Pa on the Ponderosa and wants to venture out on his own and create a new and more exciting life for his family when he comes across a mysterious businessman who offers him a job with exciting opportunities. Joe takes his family to Boston where his brother, Adam is living with his family. But Adam starts to become suspicious of the man's motives and suspects there's more to this man than he's leading Joe to believe. This is an original story I wrote with Joe and Adam. We didn't get many Joe and Adam episodes on the show and I loved exploring their dynamic as the oldest and the youngest brother and as always it's best my Bonanza stories are read in order as they contain characters and events introduced in my Forever story.

With an aging gelding of his own, and after the death of Little Joe's pony, it's up to a 20 year old Adam to go looking for a new mount not only for himself, but for his 8 year old brother, Little Joe, too. This is a 'retro - stand alone' story, of how Adam and Little Joe came to get their horses 'Sport' and 'Cochise', and can be read at any time, and be easily followed, and understood,whether you've read my other stories, or not.

Lucy Cartwright is helping her older brother Hoss and twin brother Joe to deliver glycerine, but she feels the boys aren't giving her credit for the work she's doing. Soon, after she and Joe have an argument, she tries to prove herself, but it ends up getting her in the shack when the cat knocks over the bottle, causing an explosion and Lucy to go blind. Now, she must go through life, possibly forever, without her sight. Meanwhile, Joe feels that he is responsible for what happened to Lucy and won't come near her, irritating her further. Can the twins work their feelings out? And what happens when Miss Dobbs from the Blind Institute comes to teach Lucy? Based on the episode "The Stillness Within", and told from my OC, Lucy's, POV.

Maggie is the youngest of the Cartwright family. She never remembered her mother, and they never ever talked about her. Maggie, who just turned 13 is close to all her brothers, but closest to Joe, mainly because she always thought his mother was her mother also. Maggie finds something devastating, and makes a decision that will change her life. Started: Saturday, August 27th, 2022 Finished: Wenesday, August 31st, 2022

Finding out someone was after her for causing the death of Lucky the Kid, life wasn't peaches n' cream anymore. With school right around the corner, and finding out she can't go to school, is one thing, but waking up every night to see a man staring at her through her window is another type of scary. And that not the worst part. In his right hand is very obvious, that it's a knife. For the first week, no one believes her, but when someone else finally sees him, her life gets even more horrible. Especially when her new prized filly gets stolen. Will she be able to live again without having to look behind her back everytime she is outside or in town? And will they figure out who the man is that is terrorizing the youngest Cartwrights and who stole Maggie's new filly? Started: Wenesday, August 31st, 2022 Finished: Monday, September 5th, 2022

This, "episode," is set probably somewhere in between seasons eight and nine of Bonanza. Credit for the title goes to my good friend, JennaFogarty724 PS. On hold. Apologies.

This is a what happened instead story based on the season 14 episode, Forever. Disclaimer: Based on the two part episode of the TV western series, Bonanza, created by David Dortort. Original air date: September, 12th, 1972. Written and directed by Michael Landon, based on characters created by David Dortort.

This is part of my Forever series. Joe's wife, Alice hits her head during a horse riding accident, losing her memory. Joe works to bring her memory back again. Meanwhile, Alice's accident brings back painful memories for Ben who lost Joe's mother, Marie in the same way.