General Fiction

Historical Fiction

This Is Dismal

Welcome HomeBy Bunny Hammond

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Following The Heartless Ranch Is Haunted, this is the second novel in the This Is Dismal series. This is the one you have been waiting for. With a driving soft thriller plot and elegantly deliberate sci fi elements, this is also a great entry point for your first Dismal read. Welcome to the Dismal world, welcome home. Go back to Dismal when Ashley comes to live with her sister Emmy and her friend Phoebe on their family's haunted ranch in Nebraska. Go back to 1951 and find out what really happened over there anyway. From Dallas to New Mexico to the Sandhills of Nebraska and across two timelines explore the lightly spooky connection between generations in this western family saga. Featuring ghost cowboys and homemade nuclear batteries, hallucinated horses and the Boot Hill cemetery, the modern ranching family called the Hammonds and their dignified patriarch Mr. James Hammond- fans of authentic western culture are sure to find their new favorite stories. From the tender but exuberantly impulsive Emmy to the fast driving and semi-clairvoyant Phoebe, Y2K women and fans of women's friendship stories are sure to find their new favorite duo. And as the story layers deepen in This Is Dismal, we discover the emerging friendship between rivals Ivory and Doris, who were neighbors in 1951, when Ivory becomes terminally ill and faces dying alone. We find out who Don the young cowboy ghost was when he was alive. We meet the honest soul Joe, who would give up his own life to stop the deaths in his family. Through strange cattle drives and mysterious natural phenomenon to eminent domain testing ranges and the intuitive Agent X's clash with the wild cat like desert cowboy Otto, this is a book for the reader that wants to go somewhere they have never gone before. From Nebraska novelist and quilt fabric designer Bunny Hammond, this novel will take you inside the imagination of the modern western world. Dismal is a bold expressive place, as intelligent and refined as it is untamed. Our ancestors are closer to us than we realize and nothing is ever really gone. Welcome home.

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Audiobook details

GenreGeneral Fiction, Historical Fiction

Length7 hrs 57 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

Publish dateNov 14, 2025

LanguageEnglish

1Preface

6358. Joe Won’t Go Home And Otto Watches A Rock

2I. PART ONE

6459. Mary And John Landin

31. Boot Hill

6560. Paul

42. David’s Plans

6661. The Mate

53. A Good Horse Named Copper

6762. The Testing Date

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64. My Name Was Clyde

6863. Ivory And Rose

75. David In Dallas

69V. PART FIVE

86. Help From God

7064. Barb Remembers The Hayfield

97. A Storm And An Explosion

7165. Don In East River

108. There Should Be Another Rock Here Somewhere

7266. Ashley Arrives

119. Cell 10

7367. The Man In The Cowboy Hat

1210. My Sister’s Story

7468. Coming To Dismal

1311. The Funeral

7569. Mechanical Difficulties

1412. The Gun Range

7670. Surveillance

1513. The Phone Call

7771. Mr. Hammond And Ashley

1614. Emmy In Nebraska

7872. Bad People

1715. Phoebe Paints

7973. One Client

1816. What You Are Looking For

8074. It’s All Gone

1917. Someone Knows The Answers

8175. A Family

2018. A Bigger Loveseat

8276. At Home

2119. Someone Somewhere

8377. Nora Waits Up

2220. Evolve Without Selling Out

8478. Don Waits Up Too

2321. Today’s Cup

8579. Zoe’s Questions

2422. A Difficult Time

8680. The Surveillance Footage

2523. David’s Money

8781. Barb’s Story

2624. Matt’s Orchids

8882. A Pattern

2725. Insurance Reports

8983. Matt Sends A Text

2826. Too Easy

9084. A New Arrangement

2927. Angel Made Of Wire

9185. In Reserve

3028. Emmy And Phoebe

9286. Play The Game

3129. Welcome Home

9387. A New Start

3230. Beth And Trains

94VI. PART SIX

3331. Beth And Lightning

9588. The Steel Mills

3432. Don At The Fuel Station

9689. Otto Asks Questions

3533. Still Here

9790. Paul Visits

36II. PART TWO

9891. A Letter Received

3734. Don Donahue

9992. A Very Close Call

3835. Ivory’s World

10093. Open All The Gates

3936. Beneath A Cottonwood Tree

10194. An Impromptu Ceremony

4037. The New Church

10295. The Heart Seven

4138. Joe Hart

10396. Where Rose Almost Fell

4239. The Last Happy Night

10497. Goodbye

43III. PART THREE

10598. The Cellar

4440. Nowhere To Run

10699. Home In New Mexico

4541. Into The Dark

107100. The Wave Before The Storm

4642. A Girl Alone In The Wind

108101. James Hammond

4743. Mittens The Kitten

109102. Virgil Receives The Call

4844. Joe Is Going To New Mexico

110103. Not Heaven After All

4945. An Uncanny End

111104. Clyde In The Hayfield

5046. Virgil Hart

112105. Ivory And Don Run For It

5147. Fred Without Katherine

113106. Doris And Lowell

5248. Virgil Mails A Letter

114107. Ivory And Clyde

5349. Virgil Visits Ivory

115108. Virgil Meets Clyde

5450. Bring Joe Home

116VII. PART SEVEN

55IV. PART FOUR

117109. Mr. Hammond Sees Clyde

5651. MFTR

118110. Clyde Comes Home

5752. Reno’s

119111. Clyde Was Flying

5853. The Last Shipment

120112. The Car On The Highway

5954. Agent X

121Acknowledgments

6055. One Strange Cattle Drive

122About the Author

6156. Joe Receives A Letter

123Also by Bunny Hammond

6257. Otto Learns About Ivory

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