Summary: Rated:  PG Word Count:  5526   I spied him the minute he walked through the double doors and made his way to the bar.  He was like a moving mountain; his size was enormous, just about the biggest man I’d ever seen.  The stranger was tall and muscular yet he moved with grace for … Continue reading Lonely Hearts Passing in the Night (by Debbie B.) →

Summary: Rated:  PG Word Count:  10,444   Little Joe hurried to slip into his trousers before his father’s bellowing voice shook the house for the second time.  Ben had yelled once already and by the tone of his voice, Little Joe could tell that his father’s patience had worn thin.  He’d have to hurry or … Continue reading Little Man, Big Man (by Debbie B.) →

Summary:   Thanks to Michael Landon for recording this wonderful song. Rated:  PG Word Count:  5070   Joe slipped into the dark shadows of the trees and watched as his ladylove slid from her horse.  As Joe watched, Matt Cunningham stepped from his own shadowy hiding place into the soft moonlight and when Isabella Rose stood … Continue reading Love, Oh Love, Oh Careless Love (by Debbie B.) →

Summary: Rated:  PG Word Count:                                                                        Little Joe shivered, he was cold, and he was wet too. Looking up from the depths of the old well where he had fallen, Little Joe watched the lightening as it flashed across the sky.  Joe heard the rumble of the thunder as it boomed into the darkness … Continue reading Little Jonah (by Debbie B.) →

Summary: Rated:  PG Word Count:  13,584   The cuffs fit tightly about his wrists, which were pulled back behind his back.  Once his wrists were secure, the man putting on the chains ran a short length from the wrist’s cuffs downward and locked that length to the shackles around his ankles.  He was trapped, with … Continue reading Love at its Best (by Debbie B.) →

Summary: Rated:  PG Word Count:  2380   “Hoss…I’m telling you…there’s something wrong with that colt.” “Naw…it’s just your imagination, Little Joe…” Hoss answered, studying the week old colt closely. “Suit yourself,” the younger Cartwright said, turning and leaving his middle brother alone with the chestnut mare and her new baby. Hoss scrunched up his face … Continue reading Jingle Bells (by Debbie B.) →

Summary:   Part 2 of ‘If I’m Dreaming’ Rated:  PG Word Count:  6983   My head aches something terrible; therefore I have chosen to keep my eyes shut, for the moment that is.  I can hear Pa moving about the room and I know he must be tired.  He has spent the last several days at … Continue reading Are You or Aren’t You? (by Debbie B.) →

Summary: Rated:  PG Word Count:  2015   I can’t help but smile to myself.  I wonder briefly what my father would say if he could see me just now.  Here I stand in the yard of the Ponderosa ranch house.  I am truly amazed; it really is as large as it looks on the television … Continue reading If I’m Dreaming, Don’t Wake Me (by Debbie B.) →

Summary: Rated:  PG Word count:  11,082   “Oh Little Joe, you are such a kidder,” giggled the girl who peeped out from behind the tree that separated her from the youngest Cartwright. “I wasn’t kidding,” smiled the seventeen-year old young man as he made to reach for the girl’s hand. Grace watched as Joe’s hand … Continue reading In the Name of Love (by Debbie B.) →