THE PRICE OF GREATNESS

What would you give to become a legend?

New Orleans, 1966. A failed novelist turned insurance clerk watches his life suffocate under the weight of expectation. His wife dreams of a white picket fence. His son plays little league like it matters. He mows the grass, sits in pews, smiles at neighbors—and inside, something is dying.

He was meant to be great.

One morning, without warning, he vanishes. No note. No trace. Just a name—reborn. Submitting his work under a pen name, he chases the immortality he’s always felt in his bones. As his stories rise, so does the myth of the man no one can find.

The Price of Greatness is a searing Southern novella about sacrifice, solitude, and the brutal devotion demanded by art. Romer Shaw delivers a haunting meditation on what it costs to leave behind everything...for the one thing that might outlive you.

ISBN: 979-8-9897952-8-4, 118 pages (novella)