PANIC!
The situation has become dire. Confusion, darkness, and the unknown surround you. You dig deep into your bag, hoping for something useful, knowing that the bag will give you whatever fate decides.
Will you find help?
Will you find confusion?
Will you find glazed nuts?
This is the chance you take with BOTTOMLESS BAG!
Close your eyes
Reach inside
FROM WITHIN
This grouping was selected at random from a communally generated master list of four hundred. It is my hope that these ten items can be used as a forecast or guide to your week ahead. You can also use a ten sided dice to turn each weeks items into a miniature oracle. Whether you choose to take these items literally or metaphorically, it’s up to you to find how these things may help. For a more thorough overview go to Introducing Bottomless Bag and Bottomless Bag 01.
Item 071
#377: DEAD FLOWERS
Withered remains
Item 072
#265: CAT
A fickle ally
Item 073
#234: A PLATE WITH MAC & CHEESE REMNANTS
Precocious debris
Item 074
#40: PAJAMA PANTS
Comfort and warmth
Item 075
#198 NEWSPAPER
A tangible report
Item 076
#43: WOOD GRAIN
A direction to cut
Item 077
#373: BANANA
To be peeled and eaten
Item 078
#332: SCRAPS OF PAPER
Shreds with utility
Item 079
#45: GOO
Thick but flowing
Item 080
#27: WINDOW
A portal for observation
DIGGING DEEPER
The item we’ll be doing a deep dive with this week is:
#234: A PLATE WITH MAC & CHEESE REMNANTS
Now we’re cooking.
#234 is a true outlier. How could one possibly find any oracular use from A PLATE WITH MAC & CHEESE REMNANTS?
I described it as “precocious debris” earlier and I want to explain why. We’ve all had that plate with mac & cheese leftovers left sitting somewhere, cheese turning into orange cement that makes it easier to just throw the plate away than try scraping away. Imagine that applied to a problem or some sort of trauma. The trauma has been had and what is left has left you dirty and it just can’t be removed. You’re scarred by it. Defined by it. You are a dirty plate covered in filth that just won’t come off, no matter how much you try.
That mac & cheese could be anything that leaves a mark that takes great effort to remove. It could be a past relationship that you always reference with your current partner. It could be abuse that makes it hard to relate to others. It could be something as simple as a burn scar left by a wild curling iron.
Eventually this thing will heal.
You will get the cheese off your plate.
Either that or you throw that damn plate away and just get a new one.
That’s all for now. Come back next week for another dig into the BOTTOMLESS BAG.
As always:
SEE WHAT’S INSIDE
DIG DEEP
AND
HAUNT ON
ABOUT ERIC J. MILLAR
Eric is the artist and writer behind Outlet Press. He has published over 20 books over the last four year with VACA: Outlet Illustrated, Volume 5 being his most recent publication. He is also the creator of The Disruption Generator, the randomly generated bibliomantic oracle, and The Impossible Game, a cleromantic oracle, both published in partnership with We The Hallowed.
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