I read once where Erotica breaks all the literary rules, having no plot, substance, or character. In many cases this is true. Even the very best of the erotica authors occassionally break these rules and still manage to have a perfectly great story on their hands. If you think about it, literature, great literature, is written for the ages while erotica, even great erotica, is written for the moment.

It's that contradiction that is Taria's great appeal. At first glance it appears Taria writes for the moment, as all erotica authors do. There's a passion and urgency in her work. She ties her stories to rhythm and music and they are like the tide ebbing and flowing behind the thrusting hips and passionate cries. In doing so, and in doing it so very well, Taria has surpased erotica and achieved literature.

The very best of her stories, "Raga" and "Power and the Word", speak beyond the erotica and even beyond the beat that pulses below the surface. There is something there that speaks to what it is to be human -- to love, to care, to need and to feel. And in the end, that is the ultimate definition of literature, great literature -- that it speaks to us and to what it is to be human.

Nobody has ever done it better than Taria.

Read, feel, be.

These stories are copyright by Taria. Softball is licensed for non-commercial use. The others I'll leave up until I hear otherwise from Taria :-)