TIGblogs - Jarra McGrath

"And then you start to wait for it at night. You start to want to hear it. You don't want to sleep. You want them to fight. And you're disappointed when it subsides. It's like when it rains and then it thunders and you're scared, and then something inside you swithces and you accept it, want it to rain harder, thunder more. Or you are in an argument and you try not to snap but you start yelling and suddenly you're happy to be angry. Or you're having sex and that moment comes when you lose your inhibition, stop posing, and you both let loose, claw at each other, howl at the moon. Miss Heidi calls it emergency sex. It must have something to do with remembering you're an animal.

So that's what I'm thinking, just kill each other, you animals..."

~ Emergency Sex (and other desperate measures) True stories from a war zone.