“Bev the Hacker Does Time” earned a 2025 Indieverse Award nomination!

If you’ve been following me on the socials, you saw me squeeing with joy as I received my first-ever nomination for a short work. “Bev the Hacker Does Time,” first published in Laughs in Space (edited by Donna Scott), is about a teen tech wiz who begins her community service at a seniors residence after hacking the intragalactic network to route all sexy searches to display laxative commercials. But for some weird reason, there doesn’t seem to be any “old people” anywhere!

While we understand right away how ageist Bev can be, this story is definitely anti-ageist, and it’s my 81-year-old mam’s favourite. While I’ve not mentioned this in my story, in my headcanon, Bev is neurodivergent (ND). Probably because so am I, and I love writing snarky humour through the lens of an ND character!

For the duration of the 2025 voting season, you can read my story by clicking here or by finding it in the Free Reads menu.

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On November 7-11, 2025, voting for the Indieverse Awards opens to the general public! Anyone can vote for these awards; you don’t have to pay for any membership. Learn more about the Indieverse Awards here!

Thank you for your support!

I will be posting reminders when voting opens. As always, thank you for supporting the works of this disabled and neurofabulous author! You’re awesome!

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 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 autistic, disabled, and queer, and really loves cake.

Header image features a medical centre photo from Canva, a drawing of Bev by me, and the official 2025 Indiverse Award badge.