About Lilith
The world has transformed beyond recognition. Once a place of order, it now lies in chaos, consumed by a relentless game of power and deception on a global scale. Amidst this turmoil, Lilith emerges, a product of genetic engineering known as a zek.
Tasked with extracting secrets from her male targets, Lilith utilizes her unique abilities, emitting potent military-grade pheromones to allure or evade, shape-shifting, and uses a variety of tactics both taught and improvised.
Yet, as she delves deeper into her missions, Lilith’s curiosity awakens. She begins to question her own origins, unveiling a world teetering on the edge of annihilation. She soon discovers the remnants of a fallen Disneyland, full of mutated animals, zeks, and even fallen angels.
Driven with a hope for a new oasis, Lilith must transcend her naivety. No longer content to be a mere pawn, she must harness her abilities and uncover the truth about her origins and destiny. While also in the pursuit of a genetic ark offers the last hope for survival in the face of impending apocalypse.
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Author Bio:
Wine Lo Borgias
I am what Thais would call with respect a Kathoey or Ladyboy since I was born in a boy’s body, but felt like a girl even at a young age. My farmer parents in Isan let me dress as a girl until I reached puberty and then realized it wasn’t a phase and kicked me out of the house at fourteen with nothing except the clothes (dress) on my back.
I begged for money on the side of the road and a kind monk gave me bus fare to Bangkok and enough extra to pay a week’s rent and feed myself for a day. I got a cheap room with a mattress with no windows under the Skytrain and could only sleep from midnight to six am when it didn’t run though I could still hear drunks screaming outside.
I sold incense on the street and started teaching myself English talking with tourists and by reading an old dog-eared copy of Thoreau’s Walden. I didn’t understand most of the words so would look them up and his description of life in 19th century pastoral America seemed like a fairy tale as I sat on the street corner reading by street light in Krungthep: The City of Angels.
When I turned seventeen, I became a bar girl (a type of sex work common in Thailand) and over the next ten years and often at the same time a taxi driver, plumber (self-taught), Muay Thai fighter and instructor (8-2), visual artist and delivery driver. I was also briefly addicted to ya ba (smokable speed and caffeine.)
Lilith developed from many of these experiences working as a sex worker over five years. Many of the sex zek characters are based on fellow bar girls who wile engaged in this type of often degrading work also were true believers in Lord Buddha and human goodness in general, who strived to support their parents (who often had kicked them out) with money they earned.
I thought about how ordinary, everyday people get caught up in historical events when they are often just looking to get through the day or night (i.e. complete their mission), find friendship, family and meaning, and sometimes against all odds: love. I put my fellow bar girls (straight, gay, and trans) as well as madams, police, tourists, addicts, sociopaths, and even fallen angels in the guise of the often surprising kindness of strangers.
One of my American clients fell in love with me and encouraged me to leave the bar girl scene and take college courses and eventually write short stories and finally Lilith.
I hope you enjoy Lilith.
I put my heart and soul into it to try to connect with other people I will never meet in real life, but am connected to by the heart.