A family recipe, a childhood memory, a Depression-era handout
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Dorka Hegedus was born in Budapest, raised in Australia, and now lives, writes, and makes films and photographs near the ocean in San Diego, California. Forever a wanderer, she is always looking for the next adventure.
I never told you this, because I was worried you would judge me too harshly, but the worms died. There, I said it. My loyal, silent kitchen-scrap eaters, my earthworms, all melted into a puddle of gore and oozing black death, right on our porch.