Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 10/29/2025
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): Paul Stewart - Happiness and Light Unofficial Challenge
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Michelle Liew Tsui-Lin - Autumn's Apology
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred - Thoughts On The Vocal Outage: October 2025
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Stephanie Hoogstad - Am I Anyone's Favorite Writer?
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Caitlin Charlton - The Best Possible Light (Paul Stewart and John Cox: Unofficial Challenge)
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Sandy Gillman - A Little Box of Summer Camp
Mariann Carroll - I hunt For Peace
Rick Henry Christopher - Tales From Beyond: The Haunted Letter Challenge: The Entries
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 Raise Your Voice by Vocal4 days ago in Resources
Where's the Glory?
In breaking news, rehabilitated Republican Senator Johnnie Johnson (Pronouns: HE, HIM, HIS) called a press conference from the Men’s room of the New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport, Concourse B, across from the Ignatius Reilly’s Lucky Dog stand. The Senator had just returned from a sexual reorientation rehabilitation program in Memphis, TN after being publically disgraced at a Buckee’s Truckstop restroom soliciting sex from an undercover cop three months ago. He is a founding member of the Reformed Christians for Christ, a conservative, pro-family and ex-gay advocacy group. In the spirit of being reborn, Senator Johnson invited reporters to marvel at his plans for a major remodeling of airport bathrooms.
By Cathy Schieffelin5 days ago in Humor
Center Stage with Gina C.
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By Heather Hubler5 days ago in Interview
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congratulations, all. How glad I am that we are back up and running.