The Tamarisk Hunter - Paolo Bacigalupi
Short Story
Number of words : 5200
Percent of complex words : 7.5
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 10.2
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 7.1
Flesch : 75.0
Flesch-Kincaid : 5.3
PEOPLE
Lolo
The Tamarisk Hunter.
Travis
A fellow tamarisk seeker.
Annie
Lolo's wife.
Hale Perkins
A Utah National Guardsman.
PLANTS
Tamarisk
A bigtime water sucker.
Elm
A tree.
Cottonwood
A tree.
Juniper
A plant that can vary in size from shrub to tree.
Sagebrush
A shrub.
ANIMALS
Maggie
Lolo's camel.
PLACES
Colorado River Basin
No longer full of Tamarisk.
The Straw
A shut down area.
Phoenix Metro
Middle of the city.
Lake Havasu
Near Arizona.
Spanish Oaks or Antelope Valley or River Reaches
Places that had rotten water rights.
ORGANISATIONS
Bureau of Reclamation
Pay for Tamarisk death.
Interior Department
BuRec is part of them.
National Guard
Domestic military in the USA.
Elks Club
A fraternal organisation.
BLM
Bureau of Land Management.
TECHNOLOGY
Porto-pumpers
Movable pumps.
Quickcrete
Fast drying concrete.
WEAPONS
Stinger
Human operated surface to air one man missile.
.50 caliber
Vehicle mounted machine gun.
M-16
Assault rifle.
VEHICLES
Humvees
Military cars.
CONCEPTS
Resource Conservation
Water use doctrines.
Allowable Use Guidelines
Water use doctrines.
Supplementary Assistance Program
Helping out with water deprivation.
PLOT
Lolo has been getting rid of Tamarisks for years because they use too much water. The government pays him to do so, a bounty with proof. However, a big drought has stayed for a long time, and areas are being shut down as unsustainable. California supplies the water for a lot of desert states, and has been cutting those off to survive, and fencing themselves in.
An old friend of Lolo's is in the National Guard and Lolo thinks he will be arrested for his small-time water poaching. Not so, though, as his friend tells him that they are shutting down the Tamarisk program, and his water access, but giving them a small cash payment in advance to help a little.
4 out of 5
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Number of words : 5200
Percent of complex words : 7.5
Average syllables per word : 1.4
Average words per sentence : 10.2
READABILITY INDICES
Fog : 7.1
Flesch : 75.0
Flesch-Kincaid : 5.3
PEOPLE
Lolo
The Tamarisk Hunter.
Travis
A fellow tamarisk seeker.
Annie
Lolo's wife.
Hale Perkins
A Utah National Guardsman.
PLANTS
Tamarisk
A bigtime water sucker.
Elm
A tree.
Cottonwood
A tree.
Juniper
A plant that can vary in size from shrub to tree.
Sagebrush
A shrub.
ANIMALS
Maggie
Lolo's camel.
PLACES
Colorado River Basin
No longer full of Tamarisk.
The Straw
A shut down area.
Phoenix Metro
Middle of the city.
Lake Havasu
Near Arizona.
Spanish Oaks or Antelope Valley or River Reaches
Places that had rotten water rights.
ORGANISATIONS
Bureau of Reclamation
Pay for Tamarisk death.
Interior Department
BuRec is part of them.
National Guard
Domestic military in the USA.
Elks Club
A fraternal organisation.
BLM
Bureau of Land Management.
TECHNOLOGY
Porto-pumpers
Movable pumps.
Quickcrete
Fast drying concrete.
WEAPONS
Stinger
Human operated surface to air one man missile.
.50 caliber
Vehicle mounted machine gun.
M-16
Assault rifle.
VEHICLES
Humvees
Military cars.
CONCEPTS
Resource Conservation
Water use doctrines.
Allowable Use Guidelines
Water use doctrines.
Supplementary Assistance Program
Helping out with water deprivation.
PLOT
Lolo has been getting rid of Tamarisks for years because they use too much water. The government pays him to do so, a bounty with proof. However, a big drought has stayed for a long time, and areas are being shut down as unsustainable. California supplies the water for a lot of desert states, and has been cutting those off to survive, and fencing themselves in.
An old friend of Lolo's is in the National Guard and Lolo thinks he will be arrested for his small-time water poaching. Not so, though, as his friend tells him that they are shutting down the Tamarisk program, and his water access, but giving them a small cash payment in advance to help a little.
4 out of 5
http://windupstories.com/pumpsix/the-tamarisk-hunter/