occultation - laird barron : z short story - nameless couple - 4.0 short story number of words : 4100 percent of complex words : 7.7 average syllables per word : 1.4 average words per sentence : 9.5 readability indices fog : 6.9 flesch : 74.9 flesch-kincaid : 5.2 people husband a pleasure-seeking motel occupant .