From your description it sounds like the fuel pump is on it's last leg.
Others have already covered checking fuel and spark.
A few other not so common things you can check.
Cycle the key on and off and listen to make sure you can hear the fuel pump run a cycle when key is turned on and again when key is turned off.
I have the same truck and engine, mine is a 98. I replaced the ignition switch on mine a couple of times over the years because it would not power up all systems when the key was turned on.
Finally ended up putting a toggle switch on the dash that essentially bypasses part of the ignition switch to send power to the ECM.
This begins as an intermittent problem and can be difficult to diagnose.
Basically with key on hook a jumper wire to a proven good 12 volt source from the fuse box on the drivers side of the dashboard, next touch the other end of the jumper wire to the other fuses in the panel, I don't recall it was ECM 1 or ECM 2 or something similar.
Listen to hear for the fuel pump cycling or other accessories powering up when you do this to identify where you may need to hook the wire to bypass the fault.
I did the bypass to mine 12 years ago and just left it this way.
Makes for a cheap security system, unless someone knows where the toggle switch is to turn on, all the truck will do is crank no start without using switch.
Security system on these trucks can also act up once in a blue moon, when this happens the truck will start for a half a second and die, when this occurs turn the key off and check your watch, after half an hour it will be reset and will fire right up like nothing was ever wrong.
Real fun to figure out as I have seen trucks where this will happen twice in 6 months then not again for a year and a half.
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