old virginia - laird barron : pacific northwest mythos - imago cycle - z novelette - 4.0 novelette number of words : 8000 percent of complex words : 9.9 average syllables per word : 1.5 average words per sentence : 8.4 readability indices fog : 7.3 flesch : 70.6 flesch-kincaid : 5.5 characters captain roger garland an old , decrepit company legend .