Why do I have maggots!

Bottom line is that maggots are fly larvae. Assuming that what you are seeing are, in fact, maggots rather than some other small worm like creature, somewhere you have some rotting material in which the flies have laid their eggs and they have hatched.

Dead mouse someplace nearby

When a mommy fly and a daddy fly are very much in love, they hug in a special way and…

Just kidding.

Basically, what @YoBob said, with the mention that wet or rotting material is not always necessary. I had in my apartment what I assume was a very desperate fly that I suppose could not find any ‘normal’ place to lay its eggs. The eggs went behind my trash can, I guess. It was totally clean back there, not any bit of food or anything on the floor.

I had no idea, of course. Not until I woke up one morning to something out of Amityville Horror—all my windows were covered with flies. I’m pretty retarded in the morning pre-coffee and I’m sure my face was priceless, as I slowly tried to work out what the hell had happened and how to deal with it.

I later discovered the egg casings behind the trash can, just sitting on the floor. Kinda blew my mind. After that, though, I no longer let flies stay very long in the house.

If it’s not from a dead mouse.. there is also a kind of larva/fly that comes from flour and it’s a relatively common problem.

Just based on the location (kitchen) it made me think it might be these common flour/pantry fly maggots.. Good advice on both ridding yourself of them short term and preventing them in the future is:here

@geeky_mama Unfortunately your website is not completely accurate. House flies are not the parents of flour moths. They lay their eggs different things, and they lay their eggs in different places. Flies lay their eggs in rotting material. Flour moths lay their eggs in seeds or the products of seeds, such as flour. They are different. Now here’s a great green and safe product that really will take care of the problem.
http://www.cleanertoday.com/Articles.asp?ID=127&Click=8812&gclid=CP7H3dGJoqwCFYHe4AodQSZM1w

Hi @snowberry—that website says flour moths come from house flies? WEIRD. I never noticed that before.. I know that houseflies and flour moths are two different creatures.
I meant to suggest the flour moths / pantry moths..not anything to do with house flies.