Cyber Kittens and Cowboys by Ipam (top 10 ebook reader .TXT) 📗

“Bullshit, Preston!” Geneva bites,sharply.

“Okay, you tracked Pamela, here.” Prestonnods, once, poses, attractively, grins, toothy.

“You’re a shit ass, Preston.” Geneva quotes,infamously.

“Many times over.” Preston teases, playfully,grins, toothy

Stockton inquires, curiously. “Why are youhere, Geneva?”

“Why are you here, Stockton…with Preston?”Geneva asks, sharply, sways one Colt .45 at him.

“We…are working with the FBI, remember,Geneva. You didn’t show this morning at the office. I accompanied…”Stockton empties, incompletely.

“Ashley?” Geneva talks, softly advancing todesk before reaching her.

“Yes.” Ashley voices, meekly from heavyintake of clinical medications.

“Who is BOA?” Geneva talks, meekly, pausesbehind desk.

“I am, bitch.” Preston shifts, forwardly withraised arms, announces, proudly, grins, evilly.

Geneva neck snaps & calls, softly.“Preston?”

Preston revels, pleasurably. “Got ya’ll.You’ve been looking for me while I’ve been tracking your ass for 2years.”

Larry details, meekly. “May I remind ya thatshe’s got a loaded weapon, Preston?”

Preston chuckles, lightly, talks, bravely.“Can’t hit the side of a still choo-choo train parked on the tracksat Birmingham depot, either.”

“Ashley, who is BOA?” Geneva asks, twice.She’s been working with BOA for 2 years same agency, same building,same city, same state. That’s not possible since she would’veknown.

“Preston.” Ashley relays, quietly.

“Preston!?” Geneva shrieks, obnoxiously.

Preston addresses, medically. “Ashley can’tlie with all them shitty pills floating inside her head.”

“Who is TAG, Ashley?” Geneva voices,cruelly.

“I am.” Ashley answers, softly.

“Who is BOA?” Geneva asks, twice.

“Preston.” Ashley answers, twice.

“Who is IT?” Geneva requiresverification.

Ashley uprights, quickly, turns, sidewayswith bare feet on floor & eye burns into outer space, barks,loudly two words. “Find it….find it…find it…find it….”

Geneva fires, loudly pistol hitting Ashley,deadly in heart then swings short barrel at Stockton, deadly inneck sways over to Preston as Larry’s chest & third bulletblocks, bravely Preston from harm. Geneva shoots, fourly intokilling Larry’s eye socket then fifth bullet lodges, passionatelyinto door frame at Preston’s bluest of blue eye ball.

Larry’s heavy body drops, backwardly intoPreston’s still standing form as both hit, painfully tile receptionfloor. Geneva darts, neatly rear door, escaping.

Arthur stumbles on knees, forwardly &holds back of skull with hand into lobby tile, yells, mildly.“Geneva…hit me… Preston.”

Preston shuffles, tenderly dead Larry fromlegs, then gallops to him. “Arthur…you’re bleeding from skull.”

“Geneva….” Arthur breathes, hardy.“…surprised me…lobby …only surface wound. She pounded …skull…rock.Face…flashes light …dark.”

“Get ya cared for, buddy.” Preston talks,seriously, pulls cell from jacket.

“Did you find Pamela?” Arthur asks,hopefully.

“No.” Preston huffs, musically, calling forhelping, covers Arthur with his jacket, holding Arthur upright inhis lap preventing clinical shock.

Time: 11:31. Homewood Public Library.

Nice library patron stands, slowly fromcomputer while Pamela occupies, quickly warm stool. Pamela types:codecs.getdecoder, yieldRECORDS at top of black screen. Generatorfunction of simply EDCDIC decoder will expose mirror image ofnumber of previous patron’s Jefferson County Public Library card soPamela can use, illegally to access Internet under someone else’sname but her’s.

She scripts, quickly numbers then re-bootscomputer waiting for proper ID box. After 3 minutes, she types:Chalk Cave.

Screen displays, quickly Wycombe Caves inUtah made of chalk, Bungonia caves made of chalk.

She types: Chalk Cave, Birmingham, Alabama& receives same results. Okay, Chalk Cave is local nickname ofsomewhere wayward cave here within the city of Birmingham.

“Let’s start with Alabama Jurassic parkmodel, no dinos lived here since there’s no oil under these hills.”Pamela scrolls down screen, whispering tidbits of data to bigearlobes, recalls giving away her pink diamonds for clothes at BurnU Sway Shop. “Paleo-Indians reached the known territory of Alabamalandforms end of Ice Age.”

Pamela talks, lightly. “Ice Age is gone. Ineed geological Alabama. There are five major physiographies, studyof physical features of Earth’s surface. Well, Bama rock andmountains will do.” She presses, hard ENTER.

Pamela talks. “The five major physiographyareas are Highland Rim, East Gulf Coastal Plain, CumberlandPlateau, Alabama Valley and Ridge and Piedmont Upland.” Sheeliminates what she knows as South and North Bama, clicks onAlabama Valley and Ridge in central map.

Pamela talks. “Alabama Valley is rich in ironore, coal and limestone. Yes! Mountains are part of AppalachianFoothills and contain limestone valleys and sandstone mountainridges. Yes!” She clicks on “Appalachian Foothills.”

Pamela talks. “Rocks of Appalachian range arevery old, rounded ridges and peaks former roughly 300 million yearsago during large geological up-thrust of land. Eroded to theirpresent form and shaped by forces of nature. Who cares? I’mdigressing.” She clicks, swiftly on “Valley” menu.

Pamela talks. “The five regions of AlabamaValley include cotton, coal, soil, corn, soybeans, limestone,marble and iron. Good!” She clicks on “limestone.”

“Plateau is elevated level expanse of land,tableland. Plain is area of land of low relief meaning flat. Loamis soil which contains sand, silt and clay and usually fertile andideal for agricultural use. Not helpful. I’m digressing, again.”Pamela glances at wall clock, 15 minutes left on borrowed librarycard, clicks on “Limestone” using the right link. She taps,accidentally on definitions. She’s nervous.

“Lots of categories…let’s see…caves areformed by water from water. So, how about rivers.” Pamela clicks on“Rivers. “About 1/6 of surface area in Alabama is comprised ofbodies of water. How not freaking fascinating? Many rivers, lakes,creeks and streams travel throughout Alabama landscape giving thestate one of the longest inland waterway systems in American. Thataccounts for those caverns. All of Alabama’s largest bodies ofwater are man-made lakes created by dams…” She halts, suddenly.“Man-made lake would be re-routed through underground streams andnatural caves. The man-made lakes serve as hydroelectric generatingstations along main rivers that include the Tombigbee, Alabama,Tennessee, Black Warrior, Coosa and Chattahoochee. I don’t havetime to research each river with thousands of smaller fresh waterlakes.” Pamela sighs, breathes, heavily. “Work smarter, notharder.”

She googles on computer “Man-made lakes inAlabama” as lists of proper names scroll down screen. She clicks on“Lake Guntersville.”

“Man-made Lake Guntersville is largest lakein north Bama. No, I need lakes in central Alabama.” She clicks onnext “River.”

“Lake Martin on Tallapoosa River nearMontgomery. No, not that one.” She clicks on Lewis Smith Lake.”

“Lewis Smith Lake is man-made located 20miles northwest of Birmingham. Yes, found it! It was created byconstruction of 300-foot dam by Alabama Power Company upon theSipsey Fork of