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MechaniChris
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Writer, illustrator, comic book reader, movie enjoyer

Author of the novel: GRIM PORTENTS (available now on my website or anywhere books are sold)

Website: ChristianAkins.com
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MechaniChris @chrisakins.bsky.social · 18d
Do you like horror? Comedy? Fantasy? Road trips? Ghosts and the paranormal? Satire of government institutions and stories about hope in the face of overwhelming adversity?

Well that’s a lot, but luckily, I have JUST the book for you!

Order Grim Portents today!

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Grim Portents — Christian Akins
www.christianakins.com
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Predator Badlands absolutely rips, and I love seeing the Alien world brought in, but my biggest desire is somehow to get Terminator in this franchise. I read an AvPvT comic that always stuck with me and I’d love to see it realized
November 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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It’s actually illegal to make a movie look this good today
November 9, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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Prepping for Badlands
Predator on VHS on a big CRT TV
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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We all know that superheroes are the modern mythology, but it really is funny that the Greeks had all their greatest heroes teaming up and calling themselves The Argonauts as like the damn Avengers
November 8, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Being flooded with the knowledge of an infinitely expanding library is enough to make anyone a little strange

Read more: ChristianAkins.com/grimportents

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Widdick was silent again, so I continued. "Yeah, I guess, but he didn't even flinch at you. I mean, no offense, but you scared the ever-living shit out of me when you first showed up." "I do have that effect." "And why can he see spirits anyway? Don't you have to be dead for that?" "Not necessarily," Sonny said. "Once you open your mind to what's really out there in the world, you can see just about anything." "I guess. I mean, I did see the demon that attacked me." "Right. As for old Widdick here, the knowledge of the lost books must have made him wise, seeing-" "And crazy." "Yeah, and a little crazy" Ad for Grim Portents, featuring a print copy of the book and an ebook on an iPhone. A QR code that takes you to my website and the words “Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents” below it. Under that, it says “Available online anywhere books are sold!” And above it all is the tagline “Welcome to the first day of the end of your life”
November 8, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Bought 6 more today
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Our VHS collection was starting to get a little out of hand, but rather than scale back, we just got new bookcases
Three white bookcases filled to the brim with VHS tapes
November 7, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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I think genre can is a tool to guide readers to what they may like, but I don’t even consider genre boundaries when I write. I tell the story in the most interesting way that I can and then determine what genres it falls in after the fact
#writingq #writingcommunity
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What draws you to blur or break genre boundaries? My stories just don’t fit neatly into one genre #writingq #WritingCommunity
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Well I WAS nearly 10,000 words into my WIP, but now I’m basically scrapping an entire chapter to rework the story from 3rd person omniscient to 3rd person limited. Pacing was all off!
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November 7, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Our VHS collection was starting to get a little out of hand, but rather than scale back, we just got new bookcases
Three white bookcases filled to the brim with VHS tapes
November 7, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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Captain Crunch Oops All Berries invented an entire category of joke without meaning to. I can say The Rise of Skywalker is Oops All Fan Service, and we all just know what that means
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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GRIM PORTENTS

HITCHHIKER’S GUIDE X CONSTANTINE

A man is murdered by a hell-beast on his wedding day. Now, with the help of the reaper who collected his soul, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell if he wants to return to the life he was robbed of.

#P #F #H #PR #Hu #OWN #questpit
Grim Portents cover featuring a skeleton hand holding a feather and emerging from an open book. The title is on a burning banner that envelops the feather and a large beast looms over it all. At the top, the tagline reads: Welcome to the first day of the end of your life… Black and white sketch of characters Bill and Sonny. Bill is a dark featured man in a suit and kind of a Mark Ruffalo vibe. Sonny is a rotting corpse man with a cardigan. "I HAD ALWAYS TOLD MYSELF IT WAS A FIGMENT OF MY IMAGINATION, THE MIND PLAYING TRICKS. IT WAS JUST A SHADOW. BUT NOW THE MONSTER HAD BEEN GIVEN A NAME, AN IDENTITY. IT WAS REAL." Bill Baker wants nothing more than to marry the woman he loves, but when his wedding is interrupted by a rampaging hell-beast, his life is thrown into disarray. Desperate for a second chance, he will do anything to set his future back on track. Now, with the help of a soul-collecting reaper named Sonny, he must uncover who is releasing monsters from Hell, in order to earn back the life that was stolen from him and prevent the oncoming end of days. Faced with the choice between what is right and what is easy, Bill may have to sacrifice all he holds dear for one last shot at life. Ad for Grim Portents, featuring a print copy of the book and an ebook on an iPhone. A QR code that takes you to my website and the words “Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents” below it. Under that, it says “Available online anywhere books are sold!” And above it all is the tagline “Welcome to the first day of the end of your life”
November 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Remember remember the 5th of November… to check out a copy of Grim Portents!

Get it here: www.christianakins.com/grimportents

#writingcommunity #wipsnips #writesky #Booksky #indiebooks
I rushed through the front door, immediately reminded of the difference between uncomfortable heat, and unsurvivable heat. Thankfully, I was already dead, as the smoke would likely kill me in minutes. "Professor!" I shouted at the top of my lungs, but the fire raged so loudly, that any reply would be lost in the noise. I ran through the house, straining to see through the smoke for any sign of life. When I reached the bathroom-hoping to find Widdick huddled in the tub-I instead spotted a thin trail of blood on the tile, leading away as if someone had been dragged out. This fire was no candle accident. Someone else had been here. Ad for Grim Portents, featuring a print copy of the book and an ebook on an iPhone. A QR code that takes you to my website and the words “Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents” below it. Under that, it says “Available online anywhere books are sold!” And above it all is the tagline “Welcome to the first day of the end of your life”
November 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Remember when people complained about posting pictures of food? Why did people do that?? I LOVE seeing people’s food

Everytime someone posts a picture of a sandwich I stop scrolling immediately and just stare longingly
November 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Guess whose book qualifies right under the wire!

And even if you haven’t read it (yet) I hear there’s a best cover category 👀

indiestorygeek.com/story/10310
#writingcommunity #booksky #indiebooks #indieinkawards
November 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Imagine getting to the afterlife and still having to deal with capitalism

Book link: www.christianakins.com/grimportents

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"Food?" I asked. "Do spirits need to eat?" "We don't need to, but you can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a sandwich after years of no taste at all. It's all imported from upstairs, and it's the only thing us spirits can actually eat. Of course, it's not free. Every purchase could add weeks or months to our service" My eyes went wide. "Weeks or months? Who would do something like that? I mean it's not like spirits need new clothes." "Bill, look at me. I died in 1847. Do you think I was wearing this?" He gestured to his cardigan and tight-fitting khakis. He wore slip-on shoes and had colorful patterns on his socks. "But why?" I asked him. Sonny removed one of his gloves to display his rotting hand. "After looking the way I have for so long, it's nice to feel like a human being every once in a while." His gaze lingered on his fingers for a few more seconds before he pulled the glove back on. Ad for Grim Portents, featuring a print copy of the book and an ebook on an iPhone. A QR code that takes you to my website and the words “Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents” below it. Under that, it says “Available online anywhere books are sold!” And above it all is the tagline “Welcome to the first day of the end of your life”
November 3, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Got to use the term Alien Karate in my WIP tonight, so that’s fun
November 3, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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Guess whose book qualifies right under the wire!

And even if you haven’t read it (yet) I hear there’s a best cover category 👀

indiestorygeek.com/story/10310
#writingcommunity #booksky #indiebooks #indieinkawards
November 3, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Sold 5 copies of my book to the local coffee/book shop to sell in their store 🥳
November 2, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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I’ve never actually done a November writing challenge, but seeing as I’d like to finish my next book within a year, this is as good a time to start. So despite being nuclear levels of busy yesterday, I did in fact get some writing done
#writingcommunity #writesky
November 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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Played through each one at least a dozen times
Halo CE Crackdown Star Wars Battlefront II 2005 Super Mario 64
November 2, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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This World Series has been incredible for a number a of reasons but mostly because I’ve now learned that most of the people I follow are massive baseball fans
November 2, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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My wife and I carved our pumpkins last night with our friends and I think they both came out really well! This was also the first year I’ve seen Little Shop of Horrors, so I had to represent it
October 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Tonight’s the night folks, get those pumpkins out Or Else
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Tomorrow is Halloween eve! So be sure to leave out your jack-o-lanterns for the headless horseman, because pumpkin or not, he’s leaving your house with a new head!
October 31, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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Oh I’ve been waiting for this word. My time to shine

Today is also the perfect day to read about monsters and ghosts, so get your copy now: www.christianakins.com/grimportents

Happy Halloween!

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It is only in these moments, in which all doubts and assumptions about the supernatural are set aside, that our brains can process the complete bat-shit lunacy that exists in the world. We may catch a glimpse when we have our guard down, but to see one in its entirety is rare. The reason our minds do not process these images is for our own protection. If everyone could see into alternate planes of existence, they would gouge their own eyes out to stop their brains from exploding in their skulls. Perhaps not literally, but you understand my meaning. Regardless, my mental barriers were down just long enough for me to perceive something more horrible than I could ever imagine. Standing before me was a beast of pure malice. It had deep purple skin and a thin spattering of coarse red fur. Its jaw jutted out, revealing a row of yellowed teeth coated in some kind of decaying meat. Black, beady eyes sunk into a head with no neck. Its arms were hulking and loomed forward with its fists planted firmly on the ground, like a gorilla. The monster, even on all fours, towered over me-and it was only inches from my face. Ad for Grim Portents, featuring a print copy of the book and an ebook on an iPhone. A QR code that takes you to my website and the words “Scan to learn more about debut paranormal fantasy novel Grim Portents” below it. Under that, it says “Available online anywhere books are sold!” And above it all is the tagline “Welcome to the first day of the end of your life”
October 31, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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LOOK WHAT FINALLY CAME IN THE MAIL

One of those will go right on my shelf, and I will have officially completed one of my life goals

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Box filled with copies of MY BOOK Grim Portents!
October 30, 2025 at 9:39 PM