About 4 months after being shot in the back Matt & Kitty go on a business/pleasure trip to Topeka. While there an accident severely injures Kitty at a time & place where the governor witnesses both the accident & the toll it takes on Matt. Thus it provides the background for Matt's encounter with the governor 8 or 9 months later during Hostage.

What if horses could talk what could Buck have told us about Matt Dillon and his friends.

A cowboy who hates lawmen hounds Chester to rile Matt.

A brief epilogue to "The Distant Sound of Thunder Rumbling." The old man still has a few surprises up his sleeve for Kitty.

It is Christmas time in Dodge. Once again Matt has to Work.With a little hope, love and fath maybe all will have a good night, but than again Dodge is a long way from the north pool.

A handsome new suitor tempts Kitty, a lady of the night seduces Matt, and Chester vies with Doc for the affections of a young woman courted by a jealous beau.

Kitty has recovered from the train accident and it is now time for her wedding, at last, to the Marshal. It is a great gathering as friends and acquaintances gather to view the Big Day. There are also big changes in store for the Happy Couple and a few complications.

Every wonder what happened between the filmed scenes? Me too.

Matt gets it again and gets up wounded for more gunplay vs. vengeful brothers. A journalist tells the tale with the first-person voices of Matt, Chester, Doc, Kitty, Jonas, Ma Smalley, and the one who shoots Matt. Chapter Two casts light on the journalist himself and his attraction to Kitty as he pays a sick visit to Doc and asks the marshal and Chester meddlesome questions.

A story within a story - of beautiful redheaded damsels and strong, brave protectors; of good guys, bad guys (and worse guys); there's even a "dwagon!"

Feeling neglected, Chester faces the attentions of a maiden lady and a bout with pneumonia one bleak winter, while Matt and Kitty renew a troubled courtship.

Kitty had a choice to either let her friends protect her with their lives or give herself up to Jude Bonner. And really, that had been no choice at all, no matter the consequences. / Trigger Warning: this story is a Missing Moments/ATC for "Hostage!", so it deals pretty heavily with themes of abuse and sexual assault. (hence the M rating)

Matt must protect an artist from bullies. "Stay away from him. Or you'll answer to me." -Marshal Dillon

The episode of 'Cleavis' is a look into the dark mind of a damaged soul. He also left damage in his wake. Just a little ATC.

Kitty and Calleigh make a pilgrimage to New Orleans together, for shopping and for Kitty to show the place of her birth to her daughter. Things were rolling right along, until... Need I say it? Well, it rhymes with, 'sage' and changes a pleasure trip into a struggle for survival. It also takes our duo to places they never planned to go. Will anyone come to their rescue?

The difference between a lawman and gunman wasn't always as distinct as Matt wished. Told in the first-person voices of: (Chapter One) Moss, Matt, Ma Smalley, Matt, Jonas, Sam, Matt, Kitty, (Chapter Two) Doc, Chester, (Chapter Three) Matt.

What happened after Richard Strom was shot?

A business magnate bitter toward women vows to go to any lengths to break up the courtship between his son and a Long Branch gal.

Kitty Russell finds out being nice to someone doesn't always pay. It gets her into a perspective marriage to a man who doesn't take "NO" for answer. She turns to Matt Dillon for help but things go awry with her suspected of shooting her suitor. It turns out alright and Matt takes her to celebrate escaping an unwanted marriage. This is what happens next.

Matt Dillon suffering from flu is riding to Dodge from Hays where he'd testified in a trial to save a man's life. He's caught in a blizzard his horse breaks its leg slipping in the snow putting Matt on foot he heads for a farmstead he thinks abandoned the young woman living there takes him in as a man in need of care

#4 in my group challenge series hope you all enjoy

Matt hunts a killer who lies in wait to ambush Chester, the only witness to the murder.

Doc and Kitty do a little fishing. Written for a photo challenge for the Amanda Blake Forum Facebook group.

One shot story for group challenge #3

This is a response to a fiction challenge featuring Kitty. The prompts were, drama, an old broach and a stage stop. I think I got all of that in there. The setting is right before Kitty lands in Dodge for the first time.