I've written a couple short stories in my day. The Cheekbone is my favorite. It is a post-modern masterpeice. The fabulous Jessica Haroonian (editor) had this to say:

"I don’t know if you want things to seem abrupt, but they are...adjectives and verbs seem really random and just disrupt the reader’s reading. If you meant for things to be expressed as abrupt and random to provoke certain thoughts, then I guess you should just leave it alone. "

This was exactly what I was going for. I'm going to write a full and detailed analysis of the story but I'd rather let people have their own interpertations before I give them mine. It would probably be a better idea if I had posted a more... umm... conventional short story, to prove that I can write ie, "know the rules before you break them," but at this point it doesn't really matter. On that note if you see any obvious typos please let me know.

I'm not sure why but the blogger screws up the formatting when I post it from word perfect, so please excuse the lack of indentation. So without further ado....

The Cheekbone