Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 10/15/2025
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): Caitlin Charlton - Don’t Call Me Muse
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Sandy Gillman - My Faithful Companion
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Mother Combs - Battered
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): Rowan Finley - Thinking Outside the Box
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Dana Crandell - The Masks of Vocal
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Stephanie Hoogstad - Thank You
Rachel Deeming - The Flickering Light
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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By Raise Your Voice by Vocala day ago in Resources
Cabin Fever Because of Snow, Sleet, and Freezing Rain That Turned to Icy Roads
What Is Cabin Fever? The short answer is that cabin fever is restlessness from being in a confined area. Cabin fever is the distressing irritability or restlessness experienced when a person or group is stuck at an isolated location or in confined quarters for an extended time. Research shows that prolonged cold, gray skies, and being stuck indoors can trigger mood shifts similar to “winter blues.”
By Margaret Minnicks6 days ago in Humans
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What fun!! Congratulations to everyone here 😍❤️😁
Congratulations, everyone, fantastic stories!
A great initiative that fuels healthy competition and recognition among writers. I appreciate how Vocal balances analytics with genuine appreciation for creativity and connection. Kudos to the team and the featured authors!
Congratulations to everyone! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Congrats peeps! 😄🎉🎉
Congratulations!!🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations to all of you.
Thanks and congratulations to everyone else!
Congrats all! 🎉💪🏾🫶🏾
Congrats!!!
Thanks so much for all the comments, friends, and congratulations, all!
Congratulations everyone.
Congratulations everyone
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Congratulations!
Aaahhhh… Caitlin and Sandy at #1 and #2… it don’t get much better than that!!! Congratulations to all that made it on the leaderboard.
Great job everyone! :D
I am still struggling today. But at least I had the strength to wash my hair. Thank you so much to everyone who was there for me. Thank you to the vocal time. This has made my day. Congratulations: Sandy 🎉 Mother 🎉 Rowan🎉 Dana 🎉 Stephanie 🎉 Rachel 🎉 Mathew 🎉 Lamar 🎉 Rick 🎉 ♥️🤗🙏🏽🖤
Congratulations to all the winners @vocal team