Five-year-old Cable gave his mom Jen this story for Mother’s Day this year. And now we are lucky enough to get to publish it.
Five Mice
Five mice tied my [shoe] then
they ran to [the] next
person then he gave
[them] some pie.
Cable Pelto is five years old. When he’s not writing stories, he can be found collecting bones and designing video game levels in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
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