When neither concept helps, change the overall structure. Give yourself time to feel distance from the material. While the language of a story is still firmly fixed in memory, it's difficult to notice what has actually been committed to the page. Revise from the page, not the screen. Print out work and mark corrections on the paper.
Stories read differently in different formats.
One illustration of this point can be found in the online community, where frequent misunderstandings occur over the meaning and intent of electronic posts. Read your work aloud, noting complex or confusing sentences for later revision. Don't just lip read, enunciate. Keep your original draft in a separate file to later compare with your revised drafts. Experiment with mixing and matching, going back and forth between original and revised copy.