proboscis - laird barron : pacific northwest mythos - z novelette - 4.0 novelette number of words : 8400 percent of complex words : 10.2 average syllables per word : 1.5 average words per sentence : 11.1 readability indices fog : 8.5 flesch : 65.0 flesch-kincaid : 7.0 people ray an ex-actor and occasional bounty hunter .