Poor Jack Parsons. Experimental explosives and Satanism... what could possibly go wrong? I guess you could end up in this unpleasant AU. Even the devils are sentimental and wish they could somehow find a way back to hell... 
 Warning: This is inside baseball. A lot of the entertainment value probably comes from "getting" stuff you think the average reader wouldn't. Short as it is, I think it would be a tough read if you don't know Paris at least a little, or know something about the surrealists, or know something about the strange career of Jack Parsons. If you know two out of three, or even one out of three, I think you could visualize it better. But if you don't know any of these three, I think you would be pretty lost.