Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 09/24/2025
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 donโt 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.
โจ Most Discussed Stories this Week โจ
Here are the stories that have sparked the most comments with their engaged readers this week.
๐ Winners
๐ฅ First Place ($20 Bonus): Dharrsheena Raja Segarran - Blaze
๐ฅ Second Place ($15 Bonus): Caitlin Charlton - I AM ANGRY. I WASTED MY TIME!!!
๐ฅ Third Place ($10 Bonus): Matthew Fromm - A Flash of the Blade
๐ Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Paul Stewart - Narcissus in Candlelight
๐ Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Mother Combs - Fall's Descent
๐ Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Krysha Thayer - My First Month on Vocal: A Unique Experience
Tiffany Gordon - Please Don't Drink The Venom... ๐ผ๐ผ๐ผ
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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A pattern showed up pretty quickly reading this shortlist: these poems donโt circle what theyโre about. They just say it. That makes for some tough, raw reads. Miscarriage, infidelity, chronic pain, money, addiction, fear for someone you love. Not much is softened or dressed up. By the end, I felt like I needed a cigarette, and I donโt even smoke.
By Vocal Curation Teama day ago in Resources
Bacon
Satan, laughing, spreads his wings. He launches into an atmosphere riddled with smoke, soot, and ash. He feels the radiation from a thousand fallen nukes. For humanity, itโs certain death. For him, itโs like bathing in a sauna. He laughs again at the thought.
By C. Rommial Butler5 days ago in Fiction
Comments (20)
Well done everyone! Keep writing! To everyone who has not featured on the leaderboard or won a prize yet - it took me about 4 years to start featuring. Dont give up! ๐ฅฐ
good job congratulation
Congratulations, everyone!
great work!
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Congratulations!
Congrats one and all! ๐
I love vocal media and writers โค๏ธ love you
Congratulations everyone :-)
Great job! ๐๐ป Komal! ๐๐
Congratulations! I read and loved most of these and will check out the others.
Thank you so much everyone, for reading and commenting on Blaze! ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ Congratulations to all of you! ๐๐๐๐๐๐
Congratulations to all.
Congratulations, everyone!๐
Lamar - Bullfights..! Mi Amigo you are the most eclectic writer Vocal has ever produced..! Amigos ๐บ
Matty boy again beating me to third place. Well done everyone, and Matty. Thank you, too, Vocal!
This was the pick me up I needed. I humbly give my thanks to the Vocal team and everyone who commented, read all of it and stood by me. Together we are strong, apart we are everything but. Congratulations to everyone else on the list. I am very familiar with each and everyone of you โฅ๏ธ๐ค๐๐ฝ๐๐๐
Congratulations everyone
Way to go guys...congrats,
Congratulations to these writers that captured our eyes, hearts, and minds.