Yes. The puppy lives. These are the collected stories of legendary West Virginia lawyer Elbow Jobertski. Join him as he represents people accused of all manner of crime, from the petty to the severe, from the tragic to the absurd. Elbow's blunt honesty and eye for absurd dark comedy give a unique perspective to the world of criminal law. In his travels he meets a puppy shooter who turns out to have good reason, an accused child abuser that turns out to be a victim of a rush to judgement, and possibly the finest construction laborer on earth. He sees a man's sentence decided by the flip of a coin, an alarming continuing education presentation, and manages to reduce a client's sentence from six thousand years to only three hundred. Along the way he is faced with difficult questions such as the meaning of justice, the nature of race, and how to cope with the absurdly awful. In a world where shooting a puppy makes sense, anything can happen.