Live Stories, July 1919

# Live Stories, July 1919

This issue of Live Stories contains a diverse mix of short fiction, poetry, and serials typical of the pulp magazine format. The featured story, "A Souvenir from Captain Butts" by Robert Campbell, centers on the irascible Captain Ephraim Butts and his chief engineer Angus McPherson aboard the cargo ship Asheville, loaded with eight thousand tons of copper bound for London. The narrative establishes Butts as a crusty, experienced mariner driven by an unusual ambition: to capture an enemy submarine intact rather than merely sink it—a goal beyond his three previous wartime U-boat kills. The issue also advertises upcoming August fiction including a four-part "Studies in Saffron" series by Thomas Grant Springer about Chinese characters, promising humor, alongside offerings by established authors like Richard Le Gallienne and Ray Cummings.