A murdered wife. A closed courtroom. A gene that shouldn’t exist.

When Jonathan Bigwell shoots a woman in an alley, he swears she was already dead—shuffling, grey-skinned, eyes empty. The law calls it first-degree murder. Jonathan calls it self-defence against a zombie. In a bench trial with no jury and a powerful lawyer demanding his head, he has one impossible task: prove the undead are real.

Deep underground, geneticist Tonya Farris has done the unthinkable—engineered the Zed-Gene, a man-made mutation that can turn corpses into walking weapons. She thinks she’s helping humanity. The prime minister thinks she’s just handed him the perfect tool for control.

As political elites erase witnesses, disappear enemies, and start filling secret cells with the undead, a classified operation called Project Zed moves into place—using prisoners, the vulnerable, and anyone who won’t be missed.

The Zed Conspiracy is a three-part sci-fi horror story about a rigged justice system, weaponized science, and a government willing to manufacture a zombie outbreak to tighten its grip on power.

If you like courtroom horror, bio-engineering gone wrong, and government conspiracies with teeth, this one’s for you.

Previously published under S.M. Phoenix
Based on a writing prompt.