Where Oceans Meet

Where Oceans Meet is a collection of sixty-one flash fictions from award-winning New Zealand writer Heather McQuillan.

Though small, the stories in Where Oceans Meet are substantial, often moving, and impressive in their employment of detail. They bring to the page varied perspectives and diverse aesthetics from a realism to surrealism.

These are stories in which characters yearn for connection but sometimes find, as in the title story, that ‘when the vectors of the oceans’ wave fronts meet at an angle, sometimes they cancel each other, sometimes they compound with spectacular results’.

Deeply absorbing, these stories creep under your skin with their pressing sense of longing.
—Michelle Elvy, author of the everrumble and Assistant Editor, Best Small Fictions

Read some of the finest flash fiction to enter the universe in Heather McQuillan’s Where Oceans Meet. Each of the tiny stories in this collection is beautifully crafted with sentences that can induce physical changes in the body, from tears to a somersaulting stomach.
—Nod Ghosh, Filthy Sucre and The Crazed Wind