//3rd Place Arctic Awards// Through poetry, this book expresses different mental illnesses, emotions and discoveries of a teenage mind. 'No amount of body lotion or perfume could cover up the memory of his smell on my weakened, scarred skin, And no amount of head-hitting or skin-cutting or hair-pulling could amount to the pain he caused me, but I still tried anyway, to get the hurt out of my mind. For maybe then I could forget about how he abused my body in such a way I was no longer in it anymore.'