GoldDust Magazine

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

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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 […]

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 […]

The Gilded Lies of Beauty and Power

Her waves of kindness and fits of rage left her tested like their pageant queens. A pretty yacht docked at the Maramont port, she’s just the tender and wayward age of youth. A pink dress, mascara, and heels, and later downtown in tight leather that cinched the waist.  She looked the part but missed all […]

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 […]