GoldDust Magazine

It's time you learn the power & history of Gold

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Two Validations

I remember being a kid and shocking boys at how good I was at dodgeball, football, soccer, and basketball. I remember the joy I felt in my body when I was the first girl to be picked for teams in gym and boys would fight over me because I was the most athletic girl. I […]

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She Was a Star

She was a star A shooting star at that she knew But she knew she had not yet landed and with that came uncertainty. She was a lily pad But also the motor that ripped her up in the lake She was the rain California prayed for And she was the mudslides that came after […]

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Everything Changes

  Everything in our climate changes, yet at the same time nothing does. Just look at me, I’ve started off this sweet little daisy of a girl. Aren’t we all daisies though? I’ve looked at all the outlandish things I’ve done as an almost twenty-three year old woman. I’m unsure if its better I cry […]

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Island of Abandoned Dreams

I live on the island of abandoned dreams. I grew up where others go to forget about their failures and mistakes. This is where I live and not a single soul is happy here. Technically, you’re not supposed to be born here. People are supposed to come here only when they can not make anyone […]

The Feeding

A dusty fan circulated across the room from one end to the other. It’s been a while since Augustus put it to use, so he couldn’t blame the junk for its inability to remember its single duty. Arkansas hasn’t had a summer night like this since he was a child. He lay in his damp […]

I Was Lying in the Sun

  I was lying in the sun, Near juniper shrubs and storybook villas. Not enough profit and pleasure in the telling of, The tapping of a cigarette, The brush of bare knees, A long draught of wine, Closing the shutters on balconies, With blinds made of lace at Angel’s Bay. Red watermelon hues. I’ve read […]

Becoming Another

I am obligated to remember this; being small. For weeks I recall nothing at all. Once I was ordinary, Lying under another’s sequoias tree. When it thundered, I hid in a pit. A Cratus is among us, His three siblings too. Mother, I am becoming another. I must swallow it all. I have never known, […]