The Family by Tyler S

"What is in there?"asked the child to its parents that were standing nearby.
"I have absolutley no idea." answered one parent.
"Me neither," replied the other. "It just dosen't look natural," Odd looking objects everywhere."
"They are not speaking or moving," the child observed "it all looks so weird,not like us at all."
"I wonder what they are made of," spoke the first parent.
"Well I think it is boring," sighed the child "There is nothing for us to do here. Let's go home."
"Let's find the nearest portal and go back home," they agreed.

Talking statues by Alexander,

"OK, so let's have a vote on what game we shall play, ready?" I questioned. "Yeah!" screamed both the kids. 
"OK, so hands up for Standing Still." Everyone put their hands up. "OK then." I said droopily, as it was my least favourite game. I was hoping for something else like Tig, or as some people call it, Tag. I don't really know why the kids like it so much, it's just standing still and hoping nobody will rob you, because if they do, guess what? You have to stand still and hope it was a prank, "You know what? Lets just go home."

Talking Statues by Ella

Statues, families of statues, all over town. Appearing one by one. If you stand and stare for long enough you can hear their whispers in the wind, all at once. It is hard to make out what they're saying. You can make out one of them is a child talking to a Mum, "Mum can they hear us?" it squeals.
"I don't know, honey." she replies in a hopeless voice.
They were trapped inside stone bodies and couldn't get out. People wondered and made up many interesting stories about them that would spread like a virus across the whole town.

The Bollard Family by Clara

“We stand here all day, yet hardly no-one ever notices us,” the bollard on the right (the father) stated.
“That’s not true. I can see the reflection of a man taking pictures of us,” the middle bollard (the mother) replied coolly.
“Hey! I didn’t ask you to take photos of us! I could report you to the Justice League of Bollards. They could take down all of humanity,” the father shouted, but of course no-one heard him because he was a bollard. But, the man had already walked on, just like they always did. Never thinking the bollards could speak.

Talking Statues by Grace E

''I hate this so much!'' said the tallest member of my family. 

''We'll be freed soon.'' I said. 

''Yeah right.'' 

I tried to stare at my mother but my head was so frozen I was only able to move my mouth. Ever since me and my family had been frozen as statues 5 years ago I hadn't been able to move. I wondered what my family looked like now. My head had been frozen in a position in which I could only see the water fountain at the front of the massive shopping mall. I could hear my mother sigh. 

Talking Statues by Jakub

The three statues of people stay there forever and gaze at pedestrians. They were talking about what these people are doing. They asked each other, "Are they making a picture of us or are they making fun of us? Who knows?"  

The little one is a child and the bigger statues are his parents. You don’t know what gender they are. They asked the child, "Do you know what they might be doing?" 

 "No," responded the child.  

Everyday people came to look at the at these statues. Whenever anyone came to take a picture with the statues they would never say a word. 

Talking statues by Scarlett

"Please can we go, I heard its really interesting?" asked mum. It was Saturday morning and they had decided to go for out in the city. Mum wanted it to be quite educational so wanted to head north to the cathedral. Dad wanted to see the local football stadium which was in the south of the city. Charlie didn’t want to go for a walk and just wanted to go back home and play on his new Xbox with his friends. As they couldn’t come to a mutual agreement, they settled on watching the world go by, still as statues.

Talking statues by Lexi

"Sidney, Move!" shouted mum before grabbing her and running to a nearby café for shelter.

"Daddy!" screamed Sidney, kicking her legs and slapping her mother. Her father came running behind, shielding his family from harm.

"Stay away!" he implored, "What have my family ever done to you?" But it was too late, airplanes were already crowding around them, their cannons full of stone bullets. All they could do now was hug and pray. Suddenly they could hear voices starting to count down from ten, "Nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one!"
Bang! They had been turned to stone.

The statues by Maddie

The family were trying to decide which restaurant they want to eat at. 
"There are; Bill's around the corner, Nando's across the road but behind us there's a Pizza Express." explained the father to his wife and daughter.
 A few hours passed and they still hadn't decided but eventually the daughter tried to move but noticed they were all stuck to the pavement. 
"AHHH!!" shouted the parents. 
They were mortified and started trying to pull themselves free but they couldn't. They realised that they'd taken too long to decide and turned in to stone statues. What a strange thing!