I think the reading was too fast in many places, and the audio went up and down a bit.
The story didn't really hold my interest. There wasn't enough explanation, I thought, into why Our Hero thought that scarring himself in this way would show him the face of G-d, only that it would. And the "cliffhanger" at the end -- is he going to have her cut him up now? -- is kind of overused (though it may not have been in 2002, when this was published), because based on Our Hero and what we know of him, he's not going to do anything to her.