Science fiction? Anyone?

"Top marks on grammar and punctuation flew out the window when you made the classic it’s/its mistake in the second paragraph. Normally, such an error so early on in the story would have me clicking away, but your overall writing style did manage to hook me, so I read on. Your writing style is your saving grace, because the story lacks the necessary depth and development of both the character(s) and the plot. This undersells the dark ending and the bitter promise for revenge at the end, which was quite interesting. Unfortunately your story suffers from a recurring problem among the submissions for this science fiction writing contest, that I have read. What about your story qualifies it for the scifi genre? “The people” that are referred to aren’t identified as people from a different planet, futuristic time, or parallel world. As far as the reader knows, they are regular humans and the story could take place in the present or in the past, in many parts of our known world. This story had no clearly defined genre, it doesn’t get any more specific than ‘drama’ and could be applied to a contest for historical fiction just as ‘easily’. It is a cheat that the ‘genre’ is so interchangeable that it is utterly unimportant. Either bother to develop the world in this narrative to have it qualify as science fiction, or accept that it has no place in a scifi contest. I enjoyed the story as a short quite a bit (accepting that things are going to be underdeveloped in a short story), but I did deduct points from the overall rating based on the fact that it was submitted to a scifi contest when it doesn't dare to stick its neck out and actually identify itself as scifi."