hallucigenia - laird barron : pacific northwest mythos - imago cycle - 5.0 - z novella novella number of words : 25000 percent of complex words : 10.0 average syllables per word : 1.5 average words per sentence : 10.7 readability indices fog : 8.3 flesch : 68.3 flesch-kincaid : 6.4 characters wallace smith trust fund no-longer baby , son of a senator .