GoldDust Magazine

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

Madison Goldbeck

Madison is the creator and founder of GoldDust Magazine. She currently works at TMJ4 News, one of Wisconsin's top news stations. She received a bachelors degree in journalism and creative writing from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee in 2018. She has a Siamese cat named Franz, enjoys reading Vladimir Nabokov, and has no known food allergies.

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The Dance of Time

The persistent sound of prickly Cuban songs from 1950 Chevrolets left a tedious hum in her ears. The days were sprinkled in rain, Cubaton played in every business,and with each breeze from the Gulf came a heavy smell of dust and gasoline. Karla walked the stone paths with a butterfly-fluttering feeling of contrary. She hoped […]

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When Rabbits Slip

A gold celestial pattern of the sun, moon, and stars painted on a tapestry hung behind the television set. Willie leaned back into the ugly plaid sofa of his parent’s basement, allowing his body to sink. As Willie focused on the tapestry’s pattern, his childhood friend, Richard, sat next to him playing Zelda on his […]

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An Unfinished Love Letter

  James Michener was wrong when he called Bora Bora the most beautiful island on Earth.People travel the French Polynesia, sail the South Pacific, adore the lagoon and barrier reef,But are yet to wake up next to you in solidarity,Just you,A tiny paradise. I don’t have to travel to the coast of Queensland to dive […]

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Virus

You are too winter and I am rising.Lukewarm will not do,I bid adieu to our I do.You are a splinter I keep sanitizing.Snowstorms will not do,in this field of mildew.I rid this flu,It’s all I can do.

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A Butterfly’s Compass

A Compass paces in a chameleon depth,deep in a struggling cocoon,where its North is mercurial,and its fixation evolving in each flash.Reborn in each coordinate,it lacks a magnetic field. The needle twists and heaves,astray by its own stunted growth. The Compass is yet lost, curious,Why so gloomy, Butterfly? Wasn’t this cocoon your obsession? The metamorphosis not […]

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The Invitation

  The spacious womb of enticementmilks a wide-eyed vessel,to creep into your veinslike a demon habitual to its possession. Floating through the bloodstream,salivating the summonses,to feed off the venom of temptation. Captivated in a moment,instigation begins again.

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Travis Scott to Perform at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum

Travis Scott is set to perform at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee Friday, February 22, 2018. Scott’s latest album Astroworld dropped this past August to critical and commercial acclaim, debuting at #1 on the Billboard Top 200. It was certified Gold in its first week and follows 2016’s Rodeo as Scott’s second #1 album. Scott […]

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“Radiance NYE Festival” to Ring in the New Years at The Wisconsin Center

Ring in the New Year at the Midwest’s and Milwaukee’s Largest New Year’s Eve show, RADIANCE NYE! RADIANCE NYE will take place on December 31, 2018 at the Wisconsin Center in Milwaukee, with headlining performances by EXCISION, ZEDS DEAD, and more. Known for touring with massive sound systems and huge visual productions, headliner EXCISION will bring his […]

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5 Must See Artists at Chicago’s North Coast Music Festival

Originally published in The UWM Post by Madison Goldbeck  The North Coast Music Festival is an annual music festival that takes place over Labor Day weekend at Union Park in Chicago, Illinois.  From EDM to hip hop to rock, the ninth installment is preparing for its August 31st-September 2nd event. As festival goers anticipate the schedule […]

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10 Minutes with Comedian Iliza Shlesinger

Originally published in The UWM Post by Madison Goldbeck Comedian Iliza Shlesinger is set to perform in Milwaukee at the Pabst Theater on Thursday, September 13. Iliza is said to be one of today’s leading comedians and is notorious for her Netflix specials, War Paint (2013), Freezing Hot (2015), Confirmed Kills (2016), and her most recent Elder Millennial(2018). Last year, Iliza hosted […]

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 […]

apartment near the river

I can’t drive past that old apartment near the river without mourning a past us. The Lincoln leather seats gather my sorrow, replacing memory of prayers begging you to not love me like you did When you lived inside that lithium floor home You loved me differently in December It was cowardly to stay then […]

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 […]