-- 30 -- - laird barron : z novelette - pacific northwest mundane - 4.0 novelette number of words : 14400 percent of complex words : 8.8 average syllables per word : 1.5 average words per sentence : 10.5 readability indices fog : 7.7 flesch : 72.0 flesch-kincaid : 5.8 people male researcher an expert animal tracker .