Wizard Walker, who can see things that only cats see, saved a couple of homeless kids from a junkyard dog named Marbles, and in doing so inadvertly made an enemy of Waste Johnson, 'a crazy person, with a great man trapped inside him'; All these people live in the area around Bliss Avenue, which the locals call Bliss Alley; Their city is Putney Falls, a mid-western college town in genteel decline; Street folk, derelicts, students and various others who are down on their luck cluster here, eating the cheap food from Taco Blitz and chasing an elusive buck; Wizard Walker doesn't know why he can see things that other people can't, but he has resolved to figure it out.
