Holy crap! Great story.
I'm not quite so easily sold on a story that having a giant squid will guarantee I like it, but if you make that squid the POV character, add in a mad scientist creator, armies of crops to eat, and a religion based on gross misinterpretation of observable facts, and with all that combined I could hardly dislike it. And, well, Ferret's a hell of a writer, so he actually managed to do this premise justice.
I don't think there was anything I disliked about this one. I liked Son's confrontation with his god, Dysmas's realization that he coudn't control this squid. I liked the father's convoluted interpretation of the religion (especially Dysmas's "fertilization" of the eggs), and the fact that he had not realized that Dysmas was just another crop, expecting him to be huge because Twofather had been so tiny when he'd last seen him. I liked how the world order isn't exactly explained, because how would this little one know about it? I liked how the mother squid was not at all motherly in our apely view of the world because the family dynamic would certainly be different.
The one thing I didn't really understand is, if Dysmas didn't want the squids to breed (which I assume is the case from the destructino of the fertilized eggs), then why did he put a fertile male and fertile female in the same space? Like most forms of birth control, dropping blankets of poison over an egg field is (apparently) not 100% effective.
This was in Beneath Ceaseless Skies? Huh...I listen to their podcast as well, and I haven't heard this one.
It hasn't been on the BCS podcast. Since they started podcasting, they only podcast one story for every 2 in text, and I don't think they had the podcast at the beginning. Maybe it'll be podcast later, but it hasn't yet.