shiva , open your eye - laird barron : pacific northwest mythos - z short story - 4.0 short story number of words : 5800 percent of complex words : 11.0 average syllables per word : 1.5 average words per sentence : 16.0 readability indices fog : 10.8 flesch : 60.7 flesch-kincaid : 8.8 people unnamed non-human a wanderer of the aeons , doing to humans as it wills , until it returns to the sea , and cycles again .