Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 09/03/2025
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 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): Lightning Bolt ⚡ - Storytelling on Pause
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Tiffany Gordon - The Lunch Lady Blues... 💙🩵💙
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Sandy Gillman - Book Club, or Wine Club?
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Rachel Deeming - Rachel Reviews: Truth and Transformation (Taking Wonderland) by Martin Baynton
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Mother Combs - I know I've been absent a lot here lately
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Rick Henry Christopher - Miss Gloria Hits the Catwalk Part Two
C. Rommial Butler - The Prisoner
Annie Kapur - I Was Thinking About Quitting Vocal...
Caitlin Charlton - Social Anxiety and the pain it inflicts. But also the victory when you overcome…
Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred - Unofficial Vocal Challenges: September 2025
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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📢 Raise Your Voice Thread: 01/08/2026
Our “Raise Your Voice Threads” are hosted most alternating Thursdays at 12PM ET to offer creators more avenues to uncover exceptional stories on Vocal. As we are continuously searching for fresh creators and inspiring stories, this thread provides an opportunity to exchange and discuss the stories that have moved and motivated us on Vocal.
By Raise Your Voice by Vocal2 days ago in Resources
If You Love Me, You'll Do It
I met Jason when I was five years old. I could say that I loved him from the moment I saw him. He was so handsome to me and I felt in awe by his presence. When they introduced him as the new kid in school, I wanted to be his friend right away. I remember it like it was yesterday. I remember his smile and how he didn't seem shy. He appeared confident and ready to learn. I waved at him and said "hello," before anyone else could even say a word. He sat next to me, and I asked him if he wanted to be friends. He looked so happy as he said, "Yes!"
By Sidney Smith (Sid Smith)5 days ago in Fiction
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excellent
Tres interesting?! Is this the new Medium?
Perfect motivation for writers
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Congratulations all around!!!! Good work.
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Congrats to everyone on the list! And thank you all bunches for helping my placement happen! ⚡💙 Bill ⚡
Thanks and congratulations to everyone 👏
What a lovely surprise. Thank you, Vocal. Have a lot going on at the moment so the writing (and Vocal reading) has had to be relegated to a lower tier but I'm hoping that normal service will resume in due course. Thanks to everyone that read and commented too.
Thank you Vocal! Congratulations all! Thx 4 checking this one out!
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