Water From The Sun

I'm not sure what the point of this is, but Picador has released Chapters 6 & 7 of The Informers as a stand-alone item called Water From The Sun as part of their new 'Picador Shorts' line of short stories.

Here's the official Picador description:

Introducing 12 intoxicating short stories from 12 of Picador's most exciting writers.

In June, 2006, Picador launch Picador Shots, a new series of pocket-sized books... The Shots aim to promote the short story as well as the work of some Picador's greatest authors. They will be contemporarily packaged but ultimately disposable books that are the ideal literary alternative to a magazine.

Bret Easton Ellis' two short stories chronicle the lives of a group of Los Angeles residents all of them suffering from nothing less that death of the soul. Ellis has immense gift for dialogue, off-the-wall humour, merciless description and exotic bleakness.

Thanks to John for the heads up on this.