GoldDust Magazine

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

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The Before Photo

Tacky, red leather seats of the old rusted Cadillac   glimmered like my mother’s smile. Young and fresh, unstoppable. With her bright red lipstick, scrunched brown hair, and happiness apparent in her light blue eyes. Her personality is splattered across the photo. The light in her eyes, and her soul, is undeniable. But now, her […]

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Smile

The chair was plush against her rear as she sat. Its pillowed back soft along clenched muscles. Sinewy arms trail from an oblique chest, the mirror an offensive reminder of the doll on the other-side.   The reflection pictured cherry tainted cheeks marred by grooves of hilarity. The supple flesh curdled lightly with the separation […]

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The Girl in the Crystal City

    And she had a seemingly perfect life. A blonde beauty, A talented writer, A charming social life, A textbook boyfriend, A striking internship, A life in the Crystal City. But her car broke down today. It was a long time coming, Something with the actuators. And her boyfriend didn’t show last night. She […]

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Do You Have a Boyfriend?

“ do you have a boyfriend? “   he asked & i said “no, but i’m talking to a girl”   then he told me a guy broke my heart but a woman can’t give me *he clapped his hands together* what a man can   & i wish i had said   ” no, […]

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Waves

I like to go by the water To think To watch the waves Rather than sink The sky so blue And a little pink Makes it easier Not to think

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The Void

One Impediment of the initial schema, I am a condemn to your appeal. Two Impairments of the identification, I am a sadomasochistic fawn to your ego. Three Imperfections of the advocate, I am a fundamental to your ferocity No Impertinence of the sentiment, You are a pilot of my existential void

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Sun Drop

A glistening tear runs down the sun’s face as she comes to the cold realization that while she was preoccupied being the light of everyone’s life, she didn’t have enough sunshine to light up her own. 

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Second Chances Aren’t Forever

I want everything   I want to devour you. I want to be that cliché, the moth to a flame. I want tumultuous, always guessing never sure, untamed.     I want everything   I want gentle kisses, a slow brush of lips. I want limbs intertwined, to be pressed hip to hip. I want […]

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The Depths of Your Control

Eyes rimmed in red, I grasp the pencil and etch out your name.   Ridges that form the smooth yellow wood echo the heartbeats vibrating my chest. Slow, steady, predictable.   A contradiction to the paper that bleeds lead into branches; bent and distorted like the fluid skating down my cheeks.   Makeup an oil […]

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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 […]

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 […]

Pamela’s last will & testament

  Pamela was 15. She was sitting at Ben Frank’s on the Strip, Clutching a letter she would never have the guts to lick, seal, send. She would thank God for the downheartedness years later. She saved herself from a bourgeois trial separation from him in her thirties. But for now, She is 15 and […]

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 […]