the imago sequence - laird barron : pacific northwest mythos - imago cycle - z novella - 4.0 novella number of words : 20000 percent of complex words : 11.6 average syllables per word : 1.6 average words per sentence : 10.0 readability indices fog : 8.7 flesch : 62.5 flesch-kincaid : 7.0 people marvin cortez an ex-con and ex-wrestler .