Based on Dr. Death vs. The Vampire by Aaron Schutz which originally appeared in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. A bus travels along a highway in the Eastern Oregon desert. On board is an almost superhero known as Dr. Death, a man who has the power to euthanize terminally ill people and psychopaths. While on the bus, Dr. Death encounters a terminally ill woman who is traveling with a vampire companion that feeds off of her pain and suffering.