TheGrownup_AStorybytheAuthorofGoneGirl

ALSO BY GILLIAN FLYNN Gone Girl Dark Places Sharp Objects This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2014 by Gillian Flynn All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. www.crownpublishing.com CROWN is a registered trademark and the Crown colophon is a trademark of Penguin Random House LLC. This title was originally published in the anthology Rogues , edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, by Bantam Books, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, in 2014. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data is available upon request. Hardcover ISBN 9780804188975 eBook ISBN 9780804188982 International Edition ISBN 9781101907320 Cover design by Christopher Brand and Curtis Jinkins v4.1_r1 ep Contents Cover Also by Gillian Flynn Title Page Copyright Dedication The......