The Third Time is the Harm — William Young

Deep into the Zombie Apocalypse, Malcolm Kempf has made a decent life for his family by living in the woods with his best friend's family. And then a salvage operation quickly turns bad, and Malcolm has to make a split-second choice that will change one family forever.

This is the ninth story in the series. A new story will be released each week in the final weeks of 2011 and early months of 2012.