ALT Cover of warning lines volume 6: "in loco monstri", featuring the piece "FRESH FROM HELL" by Helen Gwyn Jones. Art features a monstrous face engulfed in fire.

ALT in loco monstri: from latin, meaning in the role of monster. To act in loco monstri is to bend reality to within an inch of its life; to rise from the shadows, a looming figure seeking to lay bare the artifice of humanity; to frighten, to disgust, to leave in awe; to haunt, to defy, to torment.; to terrorize, to monstrously transform.

ALT From “ "So... How Was Family Time?" ” by Vale Prosper @evillittlevale warninglines.com/vol05 """I’ll say this: I’m ready to play the part of Lucifer, now"""

ALT From “ Biological Reality ” by Briar Ripley Page @flameswallower warninglines.com/vol05 "I can feel the creature curling in me like a worm. I can feel it sucking the vitality from my limbs, a great maggot stuck in the swollen meat of my belly."

ALT From “ Décima for Blessing the Men Who Fired Me When I Was Suicidal ” by Laura Arciniega @LauraAArciniega warninglines.com/vol05 """May your sermons be gash-flinch stained, May your pews be sludge-wasted fust, May your cup be severed-cramp crust, May your hear our prayerbe rot-sprained,"""

ALT From “ riverdoll ” by nat raum @gr8earlofhell warninglines.com/vol05 """as i went down in the river to pray, my hair suspended in susquehanna river sediment, i realized the good old way is bullshit— a status quo of submission i tricked myself into thinking i was built for."""

ALT From “ you're out too far ” by Megan Frilling @meg_frill warninglines.com/vol05 """dawn breaks and i’m wading in up to the waist. tipping back to float, arms extended, welcoming the new day."""

ALT From “ stagnant ” by arden will @ardentlywritten warninglines.com/vol05 "stag • nant/ˈstaɡnənt/adjectivei. hot shower water cascading down your back / doubling over in waves / pieces of your skin littered across the carpet / the dog sniffs them like they’re seashells / you can’t listen to the ocean, here"

ALT From “ Our Love Glows Like a Hologram ” by Sinclair Adams @sga_writes warninglines.com/vol05 "Calendar Santoyo was thinking of ending things with Petra. Their time together started out so warm, so exciting. But now whenever Calendar was in the same room as Petra, she felt lonely, as lonely as one could be in the year 2055"

ALT From “ lacuna ” by Tommy Blake ------ warninglines.com/vol05 """selfdeprived i appear intrepid beyond fear like a Detached poltergeist, void to bone, scattering my identity. i cower, servile"""