"kites that flew" was an accident book that just happened to materialize due to circumstance, happenstance, and my educational journey while living in the subculture of a prison society. i had to survive...mentally and physically. deprived of my freedom and bombarded by negativity in a hostile environment, i had to assimilate into the cultural norms; despite the culture shock of entering a foreign habitat. i had to learn the vocabulary, lingo, and how to think while subjected to a world of masculinity where egos are constantly tested and fired. economics and street smarts allowed me to thrive in a cashless society. through my years of grinding, hustling, and getting paid thru cash apps, i enrolled in many educational programs and eventually went to college. hustling and going to college...college, and then hustling..... when anyone is in prison, you will eventually receive kites. a kite in prison is a note written from one person to the next. so, one day after attending a columbia university college course (cultural anthropology, ) i came back to my cell and forgot to throw away the kites that had accumulated before. as i was about to flush them down the toilet, i caught a flash back from my cultural anthropology class. i remembered how we studied how anthropologists and ethnographers would study people in a culture or subculture; so, i decided to compose "kites that flew." as an anthropologist, i'm studying the sample(people) and as an ethnographer, i am taking notes, and commenting on the sample. i wrote this so that my readers can view the many occasions that i've encountered with some of the very people that live/work within their neighborhoods, and what they go through while in prison.