The Young Sopranos

 FROM THE YOUNG SOPRANOS TYS PART 7 APPENDIX II TELEPHONE CALL:  BETWEEN CARMELA & BARBARA  FROM MIAMI TO BAYONNE   Written By Ara Fig 2026 Tuesday, August 15, 2017 – 8:05 AM EDT A.J.’s Riverfront Condo – Upper Bay Rooftop, Bayonne / South Beach Condo – Collins Avenue Barbara sat alone on the rooftop deck, the iron railing still cool under her forearm where the overnight damp had not yet burned off. Omerta lay in a dark, heavy comma against her thigh, one yellow eye half-open. The early light came soft and pewter off the upper bay. She drew on the cigarette; the paper crackled. Smoke mixed with the brackish smell of low tide and the sharp scent of her almost-scorched black coffee. Her cellphone rang. She answered on the third tone. “GOOD MORNING CARMELA!” “Good morning, deary!—You sound happy?!” Barbara exhaled toward the water. “I am happy—I guess?! It’s just good to have everybody back home safe and sound.” “Good—good. That’s why I called to check in, Bar...

 FROM The Young Sopranos TYS PART 7 APPENDIX Tampa Back to Miami Drive – Carmela & Rosalie ("Thelma & Louise") Written By Ara Fig 2026 "CANDY-O" THE CARS--1979 https://youtu.be/TH5pD6PaJBk?is=rbD9FDuLjaRR4wOv ​Monday, August 14, 2017 ​– 10:05 AM EST ​The creamy white Chrysler 300 with Florida tags hummed south out of Tampa on I-75, the Gulf heat already thick against the glass. ​Carmela kept her hands locked at ten and two in the thin leather driving gloves. ​Beside her, Rosalie Aprile had her feet up near the dash, sunglasses pushed into her dyed hair, flicking ash out the cracked window as the flat green scrub of the peninsula began to open up. ​They cleared the Bradenton–Sarasota stretch without much talk. ​The real conversation started once the highway settled into its long, hypnotic rhythm past Venice and toward Fort Myers. ​“So,” Ro said, eyes on the flashing scenery. “Did you tell Anthony yet?” ​“Tell him what?” ​“About Kelli. Being knocked u...