Poetry Collection. First section: place and nature. Second section: travel. Third section: people and relationships. Fourth: calls for empathy and social justice.

If you feel nostalgic about your childhood and badly miss those days of colors, fairy tales, absurd dreams, meaningless gossips, unruly games and countless moments of naughtiness; then rekindle your mind, rejuvenate your feelings and resurrect the sedated child within you by reading 'Childhood Days'. This is a collection of short stories narrated in simple words with few touches of soft reflections. Although narrated in first person yet the narrator is a fictitious character who is sharing the experiences almost like an Eternal Child who wants to play adventurous games with his naughty friends in the lap of nature and wants to enjoy every moment of his childhood yet he has to encounter some of the hard realities of society. In a digitized world where life has become mechanized and the childhood is becoming less colorful day by day this book will definitely touch those hearts that still have the cravings for simple and silly fun.

“Part historical novel, part futuristic adventure . . . chock full of curious lore and considerable suspense.”—Entertainment Weekly It is history's most feared disease. It turned neighbor against neighbor, the civilized into the savage, and the living into the dead. Now, in a spellbinding novel of adventure and science, romance and terror, two eras are joined by a single trace of microscopic bacterium—the invisible seeds of a new bubonic plague. In the year 1348, a disgraced Spanish physician crosses a landscape of horrors to Avignon, France. There, he will be sent on an impossible mission to England, to save the royal family from the Black Death. . . . Nearly seven hundred years later, a woman scientist digs up a clod of earth in London. In a world where medicine is tightly controlled, she will unearth a terror lying dormant for centuries. From the primitive cures of the Middle Ages to the biological police state of our near future, The Plague Tales is a thrilling race against time and mass destruction. For in 2005, humankind's last hope for survival can come only from one place: out of a dark and tortured past. Praise for The Plague Tales “Benson reveals a formidable talent as she blends historical fiction with a near-future bio-thriller.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Harrowing . . . Will give readers both nightmares and thrills . . . A carefully woven page-turner from which . . . Robin Cook and Michael Crichton could learn.”—Library Journal “A hard-to-put-down thriller steeped in historical fiction and bio-tech sci-fi.”—Middlesex News (Mass.)