My anti-ageism short story with absurdist humour and a lot of heart, “Bev the Hacker Does Time,” is a 2025 Indieverse Award–nominated work! The category is Best Anthology, Collection of Short Stories, or Short Fiction. (It’s stacked with wonderful authors, too!)

And guess what? You can vote for it to win! Voting is open to the public from Nov 7 through Nov 10, 2025! Here’s the link to cast your votes: https://www.indieverseawards.com/voting

Note: Take your time because the app they’re using will not let you back in, if you make a mistake. It’s to prevent repeat voting and such. Just go slowly! There are instructions on the Voting page, too, so please read them.

I have included the short story on this website FREE for reading until the end of the voting period! That way, you can make an informed decision about whether to vote for it or not! Here’s where you can read “Bev the Hacker Does Time.”

Fun fact: Bev the Hacker is also included in my new short story collection, Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain!

Thanks so much for considering to vote for this creative! (My mom loves this story, and she’s 81 now!)

Congratulations to all of the Indieverse Awards nominees in every category! Good luck! (Remember, we’re all winners because we wrote things!)

Cait Gordon is an award-winning Canadian speculative fiction writer and anthology editor who advocates for disability, mental health, and neurodiversity representation in written works. She is the author of Speculative Shorts: Stories that fell out of my brain, Season One: Iris and the Crew Tear Through Space! and the co-editor (with Talia C. Johnson) of the Nothing Without Us and Nothing Without Us Too disability fiction anthologies. Cait is also the host of The Disabled Crone podcast. She is autistic, disabled, and queer, and really loves cake.