Thank you, dear @calluna/@bananafish. Your words are generous and give me a lot of encouragement to keep trying.
It is not frequent to have such detailed comments on Steemit: this writer is grateful, and very much so.
"Tell A Story To Me" seems to me to be a wonderful proposal for a contest; it also leaves time for writers to scrutinize the premises for the stories. It's a commitment to in-depth work.
I really liked the premise of this edition of the contest because I love Science Fiction and because the idea was really challenging. It's easier to start from a character or a situation than from a context, as it was in this case, and that's really good because it increases the creative complexity, so the writer starts from a base and then has to "fill" that world. This creates the opportunity for the construction of a narrative-speculative reasoning such as "What would happen if...?", or "What would it be like if...?", giving way to the emergence of different horizons that can be explored.
Thank you, @calluna, for intelligently creating this creative opportunity. In the process you learn a lot.
A hug!
P.S. I will take care of my CR to be able to comment and vote my favorites.