Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 12/10/2025
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): Sandy Gillman - Little Legs Dangling
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Matthew J. Fromm - To Dust
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Tim Carmichael - A Merry Expensive Christmas
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Harper Lewis - Distraction
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Marilyn Glover - Monk(ey) Mind
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Caitlin Charlton - Knew not confinement (Vignette )
Paul Stewart - Accidental Ancestry
Mariann Carroll - Listening To My Thoughts
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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Congrats everyone's
Congratulations to everyone! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Thanks, and congratulations to everyone else!
Congratulations to all! I look forward to reading those I haven't.
Congratulations, everyone🥳
Oh I read just about all of these! Great choices! Congrats to all ☺️☺️🥳🥳
Congratulations, everyone, and thanks for featuring my poem❣
Thank you 😊 ❤️ And Congratulations to Everyone !
Congratulations everyone :)
Thank you, everyone ! Btw, is forth place better than fourth? I feel like it will move me forward.