Vocal Bonus Leaderboard: 07/23/2025
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 - A Moment of Calm at the Farm with a drowning wasp !
🥈 Second Place ($15 Bonus): Paul Stewart - Semantic Satiation & Other Fatal Ejaculations
🥉 Third Place ($10 Bonus): Sandy Gillman - Quiet Strength, Unrequited Love
🏅 Forth Place ($8 Bonus): D.K. Shepard - When One Door Closes
🏅 Fifth Place ($5 Bonus): Mariann Carroll - My Short Interview With Sandy Gillman, A Proud Mother Of A Toddler
🌟 Honorable Mentions ($3 bonus)
Rachel Deeming - Talk to each other before you kill each other
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 Vocal Curation Team5 days ago in Resources
March 15, 2026
Merriam Webster - Word of the day: Tranche refers to a division or portion of a whole. World Contact Day is commemorated every year on March 15. It is a unique observance held globally to focus on communicating with extraterrestrial life and exploring the possibility that intelligent beings may exist beyond Earth. World Contact Day inspires people to invoke their curiosity and spend time thinking about the universe and the mysteries surrounding it. What is the “Ides of March”? According to the Roman calendar, the Ides are a monthly occurrence. In March and other months with 31 days, the Ides always falls on the 15th; it falls on the 13th in months with 30 days. The Ides traditionally marked the arrival of the new Moon and was cause for celebration. The word “Ides” is derived from Latin, meaning “to divide.” Mothering Sunday in 2026 falls on Sunday, March 15. Mothering Sunday, celebrated in the United Kingdom and Ireland, occurs on the fourth Sunday of Lent, which is exactly three weeks before Easter. Unlike the fixed-date Mother's Day in countries like the United States, Canada, and Australia, Mothering Sunday’s date changes each year according to the Christian liturgical calendar. On March 15, 2026, several notable observances and events are celebrated: Dumbstruck Day: A day to express frustration. Everything You Think is Wrong Day: A day to challenge and celebrate wrong beliefs. International Day Against Police Brutality: A day to raise awareness and advocate against police violence. My look at today, March 15, 2026 below:
By Denise E Lindquistabout 17 hours ago in Writers
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Great job all!
Well done everyone 🥰📖
Congratulations to you all!! Amazing work. 💛🌻
Thank you so very much Vocal and for all you lovely people who commented and chatted with me. I loved learning about your life on the farm and being apart of your day ♥️🙏🏽🤗 congratulations to all those who were mentioned here. 🎉👏🏽🎊
Congrats to you all 🦋♦️✍️✍️✍️✍️🏆
Congratulations to everyone! 🎉💖🎊🎉💖🎊
Congratulations!!🎉🎉🎉
Congratulations to all of you!
Thanks and congratulations everyone
Congratulations 🎊 👏
Congratulations everyone 🎉
Congratulations everyone 🎉
Thank you to all who read my pieces. I appreciate you all and you Vocal too.
Thank you!! Congratulations too!!!❤️❤️💕
Congratulations 🤍👑👑
Congratulations, Everyone!
Ahem, thank you Vocal and the people who read my lovely poem. It's always appreciated. Ahem, ahem, ahem. I think we've all learned something, in life. Well done to everyone else. Lovely to share the leaderboard with other great people and great to see Caitlin at the top spot - I think I still need to read that. Thanks and congrats!