enzo showed a flair for words early and wrote his first story when he was seven , entitled `` the horrible sock that smelled bad and ate pomona falls except for my house , '' in which a large sock , mutated by its own horrible unwashed smell , started eating its way through the contents of an entire town and was thwarted only when the heroes enzo and magdy first punched it into submission and then threw it into a swimming pool filled with laundry soap .