Stories From 35,000 ft
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Seat 3A is an intimate psychological novella about a flight attendant who becomes involved with a first-class passenger.
Set between long-haul flights and international layovers, the story unfolds inside the controlled, insulated world of premium cabins and anonymous hotel rooms, where boundaries exist for a reason.
It is discreet.
It is contained.
It is never meant to follow her home.
But some encounters don’t stay in the air.
Psychological, intimate, and grounded in real aviation life, Seat 3A explores desire, detachment, and the quiet aftermath of something that was always meant to be temporary.
From The Aviation Series by Margot Hale
He was never meant to be part of the story.
Set in the world of long-haul aviation, Holding Pattern follows two best friends navigating crew life, layovers, and the kind of relationship that never quite makes sense.
At first, it’s nothing.
Stories.
Late-night conversations between flights.
The kind of thing no one questions.
But some patterns don’t hold.
And some truths take longer to land.
Holding Pattern is a psychological, intimate portrait of loyalty, denial, and the quiet moment when something stops adding up.
This is not a love story.
It’s a slow realisation.
Who is
Margot Hale?
Margot Hale writes psychological aviation fiction drawn from real cabin crew experience.
She spent 22 years as an international flight attendant, where the stories were never as simple as they seemed.
Neurodivergent and deeply observant, her work explores the moments that sit beneath the surface.
She is based in Perth, Western Australia.
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