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 181
#19: BOOTS
For treacherous environs
Item 182
#55: LIVER
Filter the poisons
Item 183
#188: LIGHT
The absence of darkness
Item 184
#298: SCREEN DOOR
A breezy barrier
Item 185
#327: PIZZA
All the base necessities combined
Item 186
#75: CANDLES
A burning illumination
Item 187
#336: 5 PAIRS OF FUCKED UP SANDLES
A collection of well worn trash
Item 188
#65: CRAYON
Wax and color
Item 189
#61: MOSS
A symbiotic green
Item 190
#310: HIGH SCHOOL RING
A token of nostalgia
DIGGING DEEPER
For DIGGING DEEPER a 10 sided die is rolled and I explore whichever item it lands on. Sometimes this section will explain different dimensions of the item and other times it will be a rambling story about what an item means to me personally. The thing I’m trying to do here is show that even the simplest item is multifaceted and has far more definitions than I can ever explain. Every item is it’s own world, it’s own entity.
The item we’ll be doing a deep dive with this week is:
#55: LIVER
This week I rolled the LIVER and all I can think of is cirrhosis.
The liver is a good example of an ally that may turn on you after too much abuse. In the normal body, the liver filters the poisons and toxic substances from what you ingest and leaves you with what you need. It’s a necessary function. Our environment is filled with unknown dangers that our body has learned to cope with and poisons in our diet is just one of them.
Most of us know exactly what happens when you abuse this ally. A lot of people have alcoholics in their lives. I’ve had quite a few. Drug and alcohol abuse is a common thread in my family story.
So liver is one of your best friends until it’s not. It can take a beating but everyone and everything has a breaking point.
Every filter clogs eventually.
Even the best of allies have limits.
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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