Author hopes his book ‘The Average Surfer’s Guide’ will help others who battle depression
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Orange County Register
February 28, 2019, 11:43 am
“That night was complete hopelessness,” he recounts on a recent sunny day in Huntington Beach, a place he now calls home. “I didn’t have the courage to be a coward,” Short said of ending his life, a pivotal moment he shares in his newly published ...