Her Will Be Done

Genre: Dystopian Horror · Sci-Fi · Dark Comedy

Joy turned lethal. Now the world is rotting in glitter.

In the year 2043, joy is deadly, sugar is synthetic, and America is a quarantined graveyard of its own making.

It started with a miracle. A new sweetener, NuGen Sweet 2.0, that didn’t spike insulin or rot your teeth. It worked. Until it didn’t. Corporations got greedy. Version 3.7, a so-called “nutritious” upgrade, bonded with the microplastics already inside our bodies and mutated into something worse: a synthetic parasite.

Children were the first to turn. They didn’t die. They changed. Sun-sensitive, hive-minded, and permanently glitter-dusted, they became consequences of capitalist excess. Screaming with pain, driven by instinct to infect others just for a moment of relief. Adults? They’re dying slower. Breaking down one memory, one muscle, one loved one at a time.

And in the chaos, America found a new scapegoat. Japan. Mass deportations emptied communities of anyone who America said was tied to the outbreak’s origin. Particularly those of Japanese descent. That’s where Toshi Takahashi comes in.

He’s the last Japanese-American teen left in the country, orphaned, silent, and carrying the only working cure. Hidden in the most ridiculous place imaginable: a Shrek DVD. His mother died researching the infection. His father was disappeared. Now Toshi doesn’t talk. Not because he can’t. But because it’s the only way he knows how to survive.

He doesn’t plan to lead. But he has no choice.

The Journey

Toshi is joined by a misfit group of survivors:

• Harper – a spoiled rich girl who learns to swing a hammer harder than her comebacks.

• Jared – a half-infected oracle child who can hear the hive and sometimes speak with the infected.

• The Van – a sentient, bioflesh-covered, emotionally unstable vehicle designed by the same company that caused the outbreak. It cracks jokes, plays Limp Bizkit, and may or may not be harboring secrets of its own.

• Reed and Marla – a bickering couple with tragic pasts and killer instincts.

• Logan and Tasha – chaotic survivors with battle scars and axes to grind.

• Raven Darkmoor – a delusional but oddly competent goth LARPer who refuses to break character. Ever.

• Calder – a sniper with a death wish and a heart buried somewhere under six layers of sarcasm.

• Quinn – a medic with a dark secret: he helped create NuGen.

Their mission? Survive long enough to reach a rumored safe zone, where S.H.U.G.A.R. operatives, survivors trained to eliminate infected, may hold the last functioning research facility. But getting there means crossing a wasteland crawling with infected children, black ops clean-up teams, and moral decisions no teenager should have to make.

The Twist

The infected aren’t just victims. They’re aware. They remember. They suffer. They feel everything. Especially the pain they inflict. There’s no satisfaction. Just the brief high of spreading the parasite, and the unbearable crash after.

As the group begins to bond, secrets unravel.

The van, once a source of comfort, is reprogrammed by the government to betray them.
Jared, the oracle child, feels the hive learning, adapting.
Toshi, silent for most of the story, finally breaks his silence when it matters most.
And Quinn? His secret destroys what little trust the group had left.

By the end, survival isn’t just about escaping the infected.
It’s about confronting grief, corporate betrayal, and the possibility that saving the world might cost everything they’ve come to care about.

The Tone and Structure

Dead S.H.U.G.A.R. is:

• Complete at 95,000 words

• Built for adaptation, with an ensemble cast and episodic arcs

• Genre-bending – a mix of horror, sci-fi, satire, and gut-punch drama

• Visually striking, filled with neon gore, glitter rot, and grotesque infected beauty

• Emotionally resonant, centered on trauma, found family, and the resilience of memory

It’s Zombieland meets Black Mirror. With the emotional weight of Station Eleven and the teeth of Children of Men.

This isn’t just another apocalypse.
It’s the weaponization of happiness.
It’s about what happens when nostalgia turns fatal.
And it’s about the kids who inherited the end—and decided to fight anyway.