Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 09/03/2025

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.