At Christmas Dinner, Aunt Asked About My Book's Movie Deal My Parents Said 'He Writes As A Hobby '

"DANIEL, NETFLIX ADAPTING YOUR NOVEL—I've told everyone at church!" Aunt Margaret beamed at me from across the Christmas dinner table, her face radiating the particular pride of someone who'd been following my career from a distance while my immediate family pretended it didn't exist. "The seven-figure deal! I saw it in the Hollywood Reporter and I just couldn't believe it—my own nephew!" The dining room went absolutely silent—not the comfortable quiet of family processing good news, but the frozen stillness of people confronting a reality they'd actively denied. My mother's hand flew to her mouth. My father's wine glass stopped midway to his lips. My sister Veronica snorted with the dismissive certainty she'd perfected over thirty years of being the family's acknowledged success story.
"Daniel writes little stories," she said. "There's no movie deal. He's probably been telling you fantasies again."
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