Free short stories about merpeople and robot vacuums, and more!

May 13, 2025
Multiple images in one featuring a hand, a shore, and a roomba vacuum.

Time to make another update about what’s happening in my little corner of the internet! I’ve got a lot of little things to celebrate and to shout out, so I hope you’ll enjoy these fun things I’m doing, plus take advantage of some free new goodies as well. Let’s go!

Roomba Accidentally Saw Outside surpasses 250 downloads

Roomba Accidentally Saw Outside

This silly little story I wrote titled “Roomba Accidentally Saw Outside” based on a Reddit post that turned into a meme recently surpassed 250 downloads on Itch. It’s a 1,500-ish word story about a robot vacuum that accidentally catches a glimpse of the wider outside world. It’s a free PDF so make sure to snag a copy on Itch!

Additionally, Roomba Accidentally Saw Outside was included in the May box for Your Paper Quest, which is super fun too!

Download on Itch

Washed Ashore surpasses 20 downloads

Washed Ashore by Aimee Cozza

More recently, I wrote a short 1,700 word supernatural/fantasy horror story about a person who encounters something on the beach and decides to take a closer look. To celebrate MerMay, it’s up as a free PDF on Itch now!

Download on Itch

“First Contact” is the cover of Inner Worlds Issue 7

A hand reaching up and touching a glitchy, multi-colored beam.

Thrilled to announce that “First Contact” will be on the cover of Inner Worlds Issue 7! Can’t wait to show you what that looks like. Watch this space for an update!

“The Unicorn” up at The Last Unicorn Art Show X in Minneapolis, MN

A nude man sitting in a meadow amongst the forest at night, viewer at his back. He is sitting on his haunches, stretching both arms upwards, and has a thin white unicorn horn emerging off his forehead, as well as a thin, whiplike unicorn tail.
A large pink boar with a unicorn horn and tiny bat wings. Text over top reads "Unicorn art show" and "one last gallop".
June 14th 2025. 4 pm to 10 pm. @ Altr Gallery 451 Taft Street NE Suite 22 Minneapolis, MN, 55413

Otherworldy Arts Collective is doing one last Unicorn Art Show on June 14th, 2025 from 4 PM to 10 PM. Stop by if you’re in the area of ALTR Gallery at 451 Taft Street NE, Suite 22, in Minneapolis, MN and pick up some amazing fantastical artworks. My work, “The Unicorn”, will be available as a 18×24 hand embellished shining blue print matted there.

There’s going to be more (there always is) so stay tuned for some more updates! Can’t wait to share with you all of the new things I have in the works.

Oh, final note – if you’re getting this in your email, the next email that comes to you may come from a different address and look differently. The email provider I am using is taking away RSS integration (which is what I use to automate the send of these posts to actual sane hours) so I am experimenting with another provider in the meantime and hope to make a seamless transition!

Aimee Cozza is a freelance illustrator out of Southern New Hampshire. She graduated from the New Hampshire Institute of Art in 2012 with a bachelor’s degree in illustration. Since then, she has been working in a variety of ways completing various illustrations for clients, friends, and for herself.

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