Gabe's Epic Tale: "The Stinky Pumpkin"

This will definitely lose some of the "cute factor" by removing his scrawling second grade print, but here is the story Gabe and his teacher are so proud of! (I'll leave the spelling and grammatical errors!)

One day I heard a swish swash sound in my backyard. What is it? It is a jack-o-lantern. It had a bad stinky smell! It looked like it was getting moldy. The pumpkin looked all gooey inside. It smelled like a dirty, old, dead skunk! When I first saw it I was very surprised. The pumpkin was sooo disgusting! I even saw a spider web on the stem it was so old. As I left there was a cracking sound comig from the pumpkin...sudenly the pumpkin started to burst out with pumpkin inards. I wanted to leave it was so groce! After that I went to my backyard and saw another pumpkin. It was as mushed up and stinky. It was so old alot of bugs were all over it! The next night it rained and got the pumpkin even more groce! My brother ran over the pumpkin with his bike and got it smashed. It was nasty! The next day I saw a bird picking at the pumpkin seeds on the ground. The pumpkin was definitely moldy! The stem was so woren out when the wind blew the stem fell off! I heard another cracking noise. It was the pumpkin again! That pumpkin bursted out with goop too! That was my last pumpkin. Wait a minute no it was'nt! I saw a butiful jack-o-lantern in the back of my yard! Sure enough that was the last pumpkin...and it did not smell! But it did look like it was rotten! As days went by I didn't hear a single cracking noise out of the pumpkin. When it was dark it lit up and when it was sunny the sun shined on it. Every day I woke up to see the pumpkin sitting in the back of my yard. Every time I went outside in the evening I saw it start to lit up. One day the pumpkin got smashed. But it was good while it lasted.