Everscream Times day 20 by Omar Najam

ALT TEXT: Everscream Times Headline: vegetarians shocked to find out vegetables are eating them! Sub header: time to ketchup on the latest Body text: Fruits and vegetables are pretty high on the food pyramid. But now, they could be pretty high on the food chain.

Doctor Rusty Jones, head of consumable sciences at the Seth Brundle Food Institute, made a shocking discovery while going through a routine check in the greenhouse.

“We were experimenting with some new fertilizer,” says the doctor, nervously, “some fertilizer that that we had gotten from our suppliers Herbert & West, and-- well, there’s no easy way to say this-- we made sentient, carnivorous tomatoes.”

“It’s killing our business,” shared Jordan Butler, the owner of Meet & Greet Meat-less Vegan Treat on Regan Street. “None of my customers are going to put something in their face if it has a face, you know?”

But other local food establishments are seeing this as a blushing blessing in disguise.

“Oh, I love it,” says Nia Crane, owner of Greet and Meat BBQ Sweet Heat on Elm Street, “You know how hard it is to get my customers to eat their vegetables? Now that they walk and talk, orders are going through the roof. We can’t get enough of these grimy little guys!”

Whether terrifying or delicious, these tomatoes really are painting the town red.