A chair waiting for someone who doesn't arrive. A shoe with memory. A mother who runs in her dreams. A couple in love with what they don't do. A psychiatrist caring for his patient. A coin flying in a hospital. A woman who gets excited about Plato. Two essayists in the bathroom. A politician persecuted by invisible revolutionaries. A cubist murderer. A shot who thinks. Monologues. Peeping Toms All this, and more, lives on in Playing Dead. In these...