Flight of the Fantail

Description

A busload of high school students crashes in bush in a remote part of Aotearoa New Zealand. Only a few of the teenagers survive; they find their phones don't work, there's no food, and they've only got their wits to keep them alive. There's also something strange happening here. Why are the teenagers having nosebleeds and behaving erratically, and why is the rescue effort slow to arrive? To make it out, they have to discover what's really going on and who or what is behind it all.

Steph Matuku (Ngati Tama, Ngati Mutunga, Te Ati Awa) is a writer who has studied business management and is currently studying tikanga Maori with Te Wananga o Aotearoa. She writes fiction and non-fiction, including stories, scripts and articles.