The theme of this short story was extremely close to Allen's previous story "Sleepless, Burning Life": a young woman embarks on a hallucinatory, religiously-motivated suicide mission. The trappings are different enough, but both stories end with an unsatisfying non-ending. Parts are interesting, but in all of the three stories I've read by Allen, they never quite congeal. I don't think I'll go out of my way to seek out other stories by him.