A New Short Story: Good To Be King

Wednesday is about books and/or writing. I haven't shared one of my short stories with you for a while...so here goes...a wee attempt to stave off the writer's block...

Jack hadn’t been able to write. Not with all of those books staring down at him. They were supposed to be the inspiration. The aspiration. The influence, even. Instead, he just sat there, day after day, crippled by a fear of failure, a fear of imposter syndrome, a fear of inability, a fear of, um, repetition.

The ideas had all been done. And owning every…