Vastation - Laird Barron
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. For some some space-time continuum twisting evil torturer's definition of play.
Ted
The G. Pontiff Sacrus. Lord High Necromancer.
Elvis
A dead fat rock star.
Liberace
Dead fat piano player.
Wife 2.0
An android.
Hank
A custodian body to use.
Jeff
An Intelligence Ministry underling.
Hu Wang
Tormented Chief Science Officer.
Genghis Khan
Tormented Mongol conqueror.
Billie Jean King
Tormented American tennis player.
George Bush Jr
Tormented Presidential nepotee.
PLACES
The Undying City
A misnamed area, at least for most.
Ur-Nyctos
A distorted black star.
Athens
A Greek city.
Crete
A Greek island.
Bahamas
A Caribbean archipelago.
Pyrenees
Western European mountain range.
Mare Imbrium
On the moon.
Dimension X
One of many.
Yokohama
Nuked Japanese city.
WEAPONS
Holland & Holland .50
Large calibre rifle.
Orbital batteries
Good for nuking major cities from orbit.
CONCEPTS
Zen
A philosophy.
Openers of the Way
Crazy people with an elder god deathwish.
TECHNOLOGY
CAT Scan
Three dimensional x-ray imaging technique.
Hoover Dam
In Nevada, USA.
FTL
Faster than light travel.
ANIMALS
Softy-Cuddles
His cat.
ORGANISATIONS
Byzantine Empire
The Eastern Roman Empire.
Territorial Intelligence Ministry
For which he was muckety-muck.
RACES
Pod People
Mushrooms, Hollow Men, The Fungus Among Us. Alien invaders.
Old Ones
Ancient powerful beings.
CONCEPTS
Cantonese
A Chinese dialect.
MEDIA
The Cask of Amontillado
An Edgar Allan Poe story.
Macy's Thanksgiving Day float
Exhibit in a parade for television in the USA.
PLOT
A crazed superpowered man loops through time and existence doing and slaughtering (and monologuing) as he may. And occasionally getting extremely annoyed with alien invaders and Elder Gods who come visiting. Plus the rise and fall of humanity, more than once. Also doesn't mind tormenting his own past self.
4 out of 5
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. For some some space-time continuum twisting evil torturer's definition of play.
Ted
The G. Pontiff Sacrus. Lord High Necromancer.
Elvis
A dead fat rock star.
Liberace
Dead fat piano player.
Wife 2.0
An android.
Hank
A custodian body to use.
Jeff
An Intelligence Ministry underling.
Hu Wang
Tormented Chief Science Officer.
Genghis Khan
Tormented Mongol conqueror.
Billie Jean King
Tormented American tennis player.
George Bush Jr
Tormented Presidential nepotee.
PLACES
The Undying City
A misnamed area, at least for most.
Ur-Nyctos
A distorted black star.
Athens
A Greek city.
Crete
A Greek island.
Bahamas
A Caribbean archipelago.
Pyrenees
Western European mountain range.
Mare Imbrium
On the moon.
Dimension X
One of many.
Yokohama
Nuked Japanese city.
WEAPONS
Holland & Holland .50
Large calibre rifle.
Orbital batteries
Good for nuking major cities from orbit.
CONCEPTS
Zen
A philosophy.
Openers of the Way
Crazy people with an elder god deathwish.
TECHNOLOGY
CAT Scan
Three dimensional x-ray imaging technique.
Hoover Dam
In Nevada, USA.
FTL
Faster than light travel.
ANIMALS
Softy-Cuddles
His cat.
ORGANISATIONS
Byzantine Empire
The Eastern Roman Empire.
Territorial Intelligence Ministry
For which he was muckety-muck.
RACES
Pod People
Mushrooms, Hollow Men, The Fungus Among Us. Alien invaders.
Old Ones
Ancient powerful beings.
CONCEPTS
Cantonese
A Chinese dialect.
MEDIA
The Cask of Amontillado
An Edgar Allan Poe story.
Macy's Thanksgiving Day float
Exhibit in a parade for television in the USA.
PLOT
A crazed superpowered man loops through time and existence doing and slaughtering (and monologuing) as he may. And occasionally getting extremely annoyed with alien invaders and Elder Gods who come visiting. Plus the rise and fall of humanity, more than once. Also doesn't mind tormenting his own past self.
4 out of 5