mplutohide bio
 Author has written 21 stories for Bonanza, and Trapper John, M.D.. I started writing fan fiction as a challenge. I'm a Senior Software Engineer at DXC Technology and part of my job is to write technical documents - designs, documentation and white papers. When I complained about how dry the writing was, someone at the office suggested that I try fiction. So I did. I've been writing since 2009, and I enjoy it. It's very cathartic for me and takes my ever-whirling mind off my work. I use it as an escape. Other than working with computers, I love most outdoor activities; camping, hiking, gardening, horseback riding, bike riding, kayaking and geocaching. I live near the Lake Tahoe area, so I'm up there quite a bit. It makes a big difference in my writing when I can actually see the places I'm writing about. I'm a bit of a history buff as well, and the area has lots of history, so I get to incorporate a good bit of it into my stories. |
First Love by faustBZ reviews
Adam's first love is different from what one would expect - or is it?
Bonanza - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 733 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 4 - Published: 1/29/2013 - Adam C. - Complete
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To Everything There is a Season - Raising Cartwrights reviews
This is the eighth of the To Everything series. This story concentrates on the Cartwright children. Adam and Shiloh have their hands full with their work, but they'll find quickly that growing children take time and patience and…that priorities change. It will grow into a story about each child as he/she grows. There will be joy, heartbreak and the unexpected. It's May of 1866.
Bonanza - Rated: T - English - Western/Family - Chapters: 82 - Words: 188,728 - Reviews: 608 - Favs: 21 - Follows: 28 - Updated: 5/16/2021 - Published: 12/22/2017
The Lady Played Poker reviews
Adam has met a woman who intrigues him. She's beautiful, she's funny, she's…fulfilling, and she reads people better than him. But is she the marrying kind? And who's she running from? Some violence. Moderate adult situations.
Bonanza - Rated: T - English - Western/Romance - Chapters: 16 - Words: 25,566 - Reviews: 35 - Favs: 14 - Follows: 10 - Updated: 11/13/2017 - Published: 11/9/2017 - Ben C., Adam C., OC - Complete
To Everything There is a Season - The First Born reviews
This is the seventh in the To Everything Series - Adam and Shiloh have spent the first year of their first born's life bringing the man who maimed Micah to justice, then facing down danger from a former partner amid internal strife with two very different opinions about priorities. They're moving forward...but so is a very dangerous man.
Bonanza - Rated: T - English - Western/Drama - Chapters: 82 - Words: 199,978 - Reviews: 609 - Favs: 15 - Follows: 12 - Updated: 11/7/2017 - Published: 12/2/2015 - Ben C., Adam C., Hoss C., Little Joe C. - Complete
She Brought Happiness reviews
A bracelet...a trinket from a time past and the memories it carried...Adam helps a young mother running from a legacy of sorrow. Broke the story down into separate chapters for better readability.
Bonanza - Rated: K+ - English - Drama/Suspense - Chapters: 16 - Words: 18,381 - Reviews: 11 - Favs: 1 - Updated: 8/11/2017 - Published: 11/14/2012 - Ben C., Adam C., Hoss C., Little Joe C. - Complete
The Heart of the Matter reviews
In A Matter of the Heart, Trapper lost the woman who was to be his wife at what we thought was the end of the story. But is she really dead?
Trapper John, M.D. - Rated: T - English - Drama/Romance - Chapters: 58 - Words: 110,596 - Reviews: 13 - Favs: 6 - Follows: 6 - Updated: 6/28/2017 - Published: 6/5/2016 - Complete
Death Valley reviews
Joe is kidnapped, Adam is transformed in the desert. You get a mine, the Indians, the rescue, the losses, and the eventual return home packed with PAM, JPM and JAM. You also get the story of the struggle of the First Peoples in Death Valley, the Shoshoni and the Aha macave. Bear with me. I'm reposting this story as separate chapters instead of 1!
Bonanza - Rated: T - English - Drama/Suspense - Chapters: 30 - Words: 35,798 - Reviews: 22 - Favs: 14 - Follows: 3 - Updated: 6/6/2016 - Published: 11/12/2012 - Adam C., Little Joe C. - Complete
To Everything There is a Season - Life's Demands reviews
This is the sixth of the To Everything series following Family Ties. Even as Adam and Shiloh celebrate the birth of their first child, a son, trouble is eminent with Hoss still partially blind, Micah fighting for his life and more work than one man or woman can handle. This is a story about setting limits while raising Cartwrights.
Bonanza - Rated: T - English - Drama/Family - Chapters: 66 - Words: 159,208 - Reviews: 408 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 14 - Updated: 9/18/2015 - Published: 4/26/2014 - Ben C., Adam C., Hoss C., Little Joe C. - Complete
To Everything There is a Season - Family Ties reviews
This is the fifth of the To Everything series. Adam and Shiloh are in their seventh month of marriage and have been busy learning the boundaries of married life and how to live with each of their busy schedules. They think the ghosts of the past are gone. They think they've learned to compromise. They think the worst is behind them. In life, things can change in an instant.
Bonanza - Rated: T - English - Drama/Family - Chapters: 89 - Words: 165,630 - Reviews: 236 - Favs: 11 - Follows: 8 - Updated: 4/17/2014 - Published: 1/11/2014 - Adam C., Ben C., Hoss C., Little Joe C. - Complete
To Everything There is a Season - Growing Pains reviews
This is fourth of the To Everything series, the first, Reacquaintance, the second Falling, and the third Togetherness. Shiloh and Adam come home from their honeymoon and embark on a new life together discovering that fitting all their desires in can make for trouble as her past creeps in and as they balance the opportunities that come their way.
Bonanza - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 71 - Words: 121,390 - Reviews: 150 - Favs: 8 - Follows: 4 - Updated: 12/31/2013 - Published: 10/10/2013 - Adam C., Ben C., Hoss C., Little Joe C. - Complete
To Everything There is a Season - Togetherness reviews
This is third of the To Everything series, the first, Reacquaintance and the second Falling. Shiloh and Adam are married and are embarking on a new life together discovering that fitting all their desires in can make for trouble as her past keeps creeping in, and as they balance the opportunities that come their way.
Bonanza - Rated: K+ - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 37 - Words: 61,340 - Reviews: 83 - Favs: 11 - Follows: 9 - Updated: 10/7/2013 - Published: 7/20/2013 - Adam C. - Complete
To Everything There is a Season - Falling reviews
Sequel to Reacquaintance. The Cartwrights welcomed the daughter of a good friend back from college after her father died. She had a long, adversarial history with Adam, but since she's been back, old wounds have healed. The pressures of her dual life have forced her to make a choice. Did she ultimately make a sacrifice? Or will she make yet another choice?
Bonanza - Rated: T - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 71 - Words: 81,069 - Reviews: 143 - Favs: 11 - Follows: 6 - Updated: 7/19/2013 - Published: 4/25/2013 - Adam C., Ben C., Hoss C., Little Joe C. - Complete
The Long Journey Home reviews
Adam has found his wife and his child; a child he didn't know he had. But she and the baby still have a long way to go before they can truely be home. This is a sequel to Lost and Found.
Bonanza - Rated: M - English - Hurt/Comfort/Angst - Chapters: 34 - Words: 29,474 - Reviews: 67 - Favs: 13 - Follows: 8 - Updated: 6/28/2013 - Published: 5/31/2013 - Adam C., Ben C., Hoss C., Little Joe C. - Complete
A Matter of the Heart reviews
Modernizing the way Trapper does things turns out to be a real chore for the woman who's installing the new computer system at the hospital. Trapper finds she has a turbulent past, emotionally and physically, and digs in to find what makes her tick. Drama, Tragedy, Angst, Romance
Trapper John, M.D. - Rated: T - English - Drama/Tragedy - Chapters: 96 - Words: 168,349 - Reviews: 71 - Favs: 7 - Follows: 6 - Updated: 6/3/2013 - Published: 11/15/2012 - Complete
To Everything There is a Season - Reacquaintance reviews
The Cartwrights welcome the daughter of a good friend back from college after her father dies. She studied for seven years and became a successful singer back east and comes home to her father's ranch and horse business which is held in trust with Adam and Ben as the trustees. She shares some unpleasant history with Adam.
Bonanza - Rated: T - English - Hurt/Comfort/Drama - Chapters: 52 - Words: 64,334 - Reviews: 129 - Favs: 20 - Follows: 11 - Updated: 4/18/2013 - Published: 12/6/2012 - Adam C., Ben C. - Complete
Lost and Found reviews
Adam finds a woman to love who has no reason to leave him. When she's taken away, he's left wondering if he'll ever get her back…and if she'll want to come back. This is the first of two stories about Adam and Becca.
Bonanza - Rated: M - English - Romance/Drama - Chapters: 40 - Words: 30,616 - Reviews: 28 - Favs: 9 - Follows: 7 - Updated: 3/7/2013 - Published: 12/6/2012 - Adam C., Hoss C. - Complete
A Hush Fell Over the Party reviews
Do you ever wonder if private thoughts sound the same as if the person were saying them aloud? This was a challenge to start a story with the first line of a well-known book.
Bonanza - Rated: K - English - Humor/Family - Chapters: 1 - Words: 297 - Reviews: 4 - Favs: 1 - Follows: 1 - Published: 12/6/2012 - Hoss C. - Complete
Does Time Heal All Wounds? reviews
A tragic death and the path through grief to the fragile peace beyond. Adam befriends a young man after the death of the young man's father, then blames himself for an accident.
Bonanza - Rated: K+ - English - Tragedy/Hurt/Comfort - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,168 - Reviews: 7 - Favs: 4 - Published: 12/6/2012 - Adam C. - Complete
Life and Sunsets reviews
An old man gives Adam something more than advice.
Bonanza - Rated: K - English - Friendship - Chapters: 1 - Words: 1,411 - Reviews: 8 - Favs: 5 - Published: 12/6/2012 - Adam C. - Complete
Sometimes You Just Don't Care reviews
Did you ever have one of those days when all you could do was loaf?
Bonanza - Rated: K - English - Chapters: 1 - Words: 295 - Reviews: 6 - Favs: 2 - Published: 12/6/2012 - Adam C., Hoss C. - Complete
Secrets reviews
Ben extends a business trip in San Francisco when he meets a mature, polished younger woman who comes from a well-known, well-to-do family. Joe, Hoss and Adam believe they have each met this same young woman before under questionable circumstances and each kept those meetings to himself, but are all disturbed when their father introduces her as his fiancé. Drama, Mystery, Romance
Bonanza - Rated: T - English - Drama/Mystery - Chapters: 1 - Words: 20,862 - Reviews: 3 - Favs: 4 - Follows: 2 - Published: 11/14/2012 - Adam C., Ben C. - Complete
Vengeance is Mine reviews
A year after the worst time of his life, Adam Cartwright sees his old nemesis. No one else does.
Bonanza - Rated: K+ - English - Mystery/Drama - Chapters: 1 - Words: 29,025 - Reviews: 5 - Favs: 5 - Follows: 1 - Published: 11/11/2012 - Adam C., Ben C. - Complete