Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 06/25/2025
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): Dharrsheena Raja Segarran - Sugar-Laced
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Heather Hubler - Light it up
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Mother Combs - Stepping Out of my Comfort Zone
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Paul Stewart - What I Should Have Said
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): D.K. Shepard - Can You Hear Me Now?
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Euan Brennan - A Mistake Born to Make Mistakes
Matthew Fromm - All Hobbits Share A Love Of Things That Grow
Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred - The Effect Of The New Vocal Leader Board
Tim Carmichael - What Real Writing Looks Like in Vocal Challenges
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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Say It Plainly Challenge Winners
A pattern showed up pretty quickly reading this shortlist: these poems don’t circle what they’re 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 don’t even smoke.
By Vocal Curation Teamabout 22 hours ago in Resources
Kristi Noem is MELTING!!!!!
Former Homeland Secretary/"Ice Barbie" Kristi Noem is melting with scandals, not she is dealing with a cheating affair with one of the aides, killing her puppy, her own supportive husband Byron Noem is being exposed as a crossdresser, talking with fetish's Bimbos and paying them thousands of dollars. Kristi Noem's husband was exposed by the Dailymail this week exposing photos of Byron wearing and flaunting big gigantic balloon faux ta-tas, wearing paded shorts, and pouting his duck lips like it's 2013.
By Gladys W. Muturi5 days ago in The Swamp
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Hello every one congratulations to all the winners I’m new here if anyone here wants to ready my books lmk I think you will like them 💕
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Congrats all you punky Brewsters! 😄 🎉
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Thank you so much all of you guys who read and commented on Sugar-Laced! 🥰🥰🥰 Congratulations to everyone! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
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Thank you! Ruth at least deserves some credit for being my muse! Well done to everyone else. Another strong week, nice to be sharing it with you all!