Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 02/11/2026
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 - Lost in Reverie
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Paul Stewart - The Lesions of Devotion
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Caitlin Charlton - The Indifferent Sun
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Rachel Deeming - Little Owl
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): John Cox - we die forgotten
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Seema Patel - What I Think About After Death?
Tim Carmichael - Hello from the Mountains, One Year Anniversary of Being on Vocal
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: 02/19/2026
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 Vocal6 days ago in Resources
Veil of Subconscious Awakening
Images slide behind my eyelids like film cadres, bursting with meanings. In one moment, I’m speeding down the highway, making the speedometer swing wildly like a frantic pendulum. The next moment, I’m plunging from a falling plane, slowly crashing earthward. At home, I meet black cat’s green, googly eyes staring at me from the cavernous hollowness of the kitchen. When I turn for a moment, it disappears, and all I can see is a pair of blue suede shoes set up against the wall. I pick them up and put them on. When I glimpse at them again, they’ve become black as night, making me blink and flinch.
By Moon Desert3 days ago in Fiction
At My Wits’ End
Life is about taking out the trash and calling it trash because you have every reason to. It wasn't meant to be linear, they say. But the times you tried to make it straight led to problems, and you didn’t have the tools to put any of it to use. You don't put your right shoes on the right feet; you put the left shoes on the left feet. The grey hardened slab will trip you up anyway.
By Caitlin Charlton6 days ago in Humans
Comments (19)
Congratulations to all of you!
Congratulation everyone!!
Congratulations everyone!!
Excellent pieces!
Congratulations to everyone! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Thanks, and congratulations everyone!
Congratulations Everyone 🎊 👏 💐 🥳 🎊
Thank you so much for the honorable mention.
Well done everyone 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺
Congratulations to everyone🎉 and thank you for the honorable mention💖
I missed a few of these!! The ones I read I KNEW would place, they were magnificent! Congrats to all!
Thanks and congrats
Congratulations everyone! I’m glad to see I was early to the party on some of these (less catch up reading to do).💖
😉❤️❤️❤️Awesome 👌 Congratulations Everyone 🎊
Congratulations🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations to the esteemed creators! Cheers!
❤️❤️ Thank you so much to the Vocal team and to all of you who shared the effect that second line had. It was illuminating; I received some of the most helpful comments! ❤️❤️ Congratulations to my fellow winners and mentions: Sandy 🎉💐 Paul 🎉❤️ Rachel 🎉💐 John 🎉❤️ Seema 🎉💐 Tim 🎉❤️ Imola 🎉💐 Komal 🎉💐 Susan 🎉💐
Congratulations, all!!
What to go! Congratulations!