Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 01/14/2026
Celebrating creativity, engagement, and community building on Vocal.
Welcome to our weekly Leaderboard update! We're delighted to highlight Vocal's most popular stories. Join us as we recognize this week's standout contributors and their remarkable achievements.
A reminder of some ground rules we use to formulate the Leaderboard:
The time period of data analyzed for each weekly Leaderboard is collected from 12:00am Wednesday - 11:59pm Tuesday ET each week. Only top level comments and replies by unique Vocal+ creators will count, comments or replies by the story author will be excluded. You don’t need to be Vocal+ to appear on the leaderboard. You can appear on the Leaderboard once per week. You can appear on the Leaderboard multiple weeks in a row. No AI generated content.
✨ Most Discussed Stories this Week ✨
Here are the stories that have sparked the most comments with their engaged readers this week.
🏆 Winners
🥇 First Place ($20 Bonus): Sandy Gillman - Cosy Bite
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Tiffany Gordon - Remember Goodness Pays...
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Sara Wilson - How to Pretend You're Not Being Controlled by an Alien Parasite.
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Rachel Robbins - What I learned about Vocal Challenges from...
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Judey Kalchik - The Correct Way to Eat M&Ms
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Kendall Defoe - Political Thirty-Three
Each winner will receive a well-deserved bonus in their Vocal Wallets within the next 72 hours.
Congratulations to all the winners! We love what you bring to the table at Vocal. Here's to another week of excellent writing and reads.
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By Vocal Curation Team7 days ago in Resources
"Hear Me Out"
"Hear me out, what if we ran away together?" "Where do you want to go?" "Anywhere but here. We could move to a new city or to Canada, or we could disappear from society to live in the middle of the woods. Maybe a combination of two of those things would be good. What do you say?"
By Kay Husnick8 days ago in Fiction
Comments (15)
Congratulations!
Congratulations everyone! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
This is nice. Only my second time on the leaderboard, so thank you to everyone who took the time to read and comment. ❤️
Thanks and congratulations everyone!
Thank you much everyone! Congrats 2 everyone featured! Happy 2026! 🥳
Congrats, one & all. ⚡️
It's been a long time since I've been here. Thank you!
Congratulations everyone
I knew that grilled cheese story was a masterpiece! Days later and I'm still eating grilled cheese because of it 🤣🤣 congrats, Sandy! And everyone else!!!!! Also, I actually PLACED? 🥹🥹 This is my first time. I've had an HM before, but this is my first time placing 🤭🤭 I am honoured 🥹🥹
Congratulations Everyone 🎊
Congratulations to all.
I see Sandy leading the board! That piece was truly awesome. I am still hungry for more work like that! 🎉 Congratulations, my lovely! Congratulations to: Tiffany 🎉 Sara 🎉 Rachel 🎉 Judey 🎉 PAAUULL! 🎉 Kendall 🎉 Lightning Bolt 🎉 Lamar 🎉 Mother Combs 🎉
Congratulations to everyone mentioned, you encourage me to keep writing xx
Congratulations! One day I’ll make it back up there with y’all. 💖🥂
My thanks to those that read about, commented, and hopefully will now follow the instructions to; eat M&Ms the correct way!