vastation - laird barron : z short story - 4.0 - far future mythos short story number of words : 6300 percent of complex words : 11.9 average syllables per word : 1.6 average words per sentence : 15.7 readability indices fog : 11.0 flesch : 56.8 flesch-kincaid : 9.2 people superhuman narrator likes to play with humans and aliens alike .