The Kill Switch is Volume III of novelist and Delines songwriter, Willy Vlautin's spoken word series. The story, written and narrated by Vlautin, includes an original soundtrack by The Delines. The band wrote and recorded seven instrumentals for the story as well as one featuring vocalist Amy Boone titled, When Marlene was Marlene. The Kill Switch was originally published in the car/crime noir collection, The Highway Kind compiled by Patrick Millikin.