six six six - laird barron : z short story - 3.5 - nameless couple short story number of words : 6400 percent of complex words : 8.3 average syllables per word : 1.4 average words per sentence : 10.7 readability indices fog : 7.6 flesch : 73.5 flesch-kincaid : 5.7 people husband inherited his father 's creepy old house .