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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 221
#116: CUMULONIMBUS
Storm origin
Item 222
#137: GLOBE
A model planet
Item 223
#391: PILE OF SPECIAL ROCKS
A collection of importance
Item 224
#82: CUSHIONS
A soft gathering
Item 225
#156: OVEN MITT
Protection from heat
Item 226
#154: BOTTLE BRUSH
To clean within
Item 227
#235: A MULTICOLOR PEN
A choice of colors
Item 228
#228: FAMILY PICTURES (DEAD)
A fond remembrance
Item 229
#325: PENNY FARTHING
An aged conveyance
Item 230
#170: BOX OF MATCHES
To contain the flames
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:
#156: OVEN MITT
I really, really feel this item. I think anyone who has spent a good amount of time in the kitchen does. Without the proper heat protection baking and cooking means injury and pain. No one wants to remember their Tombstone pizza for the next 3 weeks as the third degree burn on their hand heals up, right?
That’s the thing about our skin; it’s weak, it’s fragile. It’s susceptible to such great harms and that’s why we have to protect it.
From the heat and the cold.
From the sharp and the pointed.
And if we fail to protect ourselves?
We get reminded with pain and scars and blood.
I have a scar on my hand from accidentally touching the top of my oven from a couple months ago. It’s red and raised. That scar is like a little alarm that reminds me that if I’m not careful it will happen again. That if I am that careless with my flesh that I will have to live with a preventable pain again. That I will be wounded by my own lack of preparation.
Flesh is weak.
Protect it.
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
The BOTTOMLESS BAG paperback, complete with all 400 items, available here!
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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