Miriam Jayaratna Biography Miriam Jayaratna’s work has appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Reductress, the Boston Globe, the Rumpus, and elsewhere. Mindy Tucker See Work #VQRTRUESTORY / Winter 2024 How to Win Friends and Horrify People By Miriam Jayaratna I gazed down at my boss’s lifeless body and was gripped by a queasy feeling. Was it horror? Remorse? Arousal? No. It was something much worse: inadequacy. #VQRTRUESTORY / Spring 2024 We Don’t Deserve This By Miriam Jayaratna I am an architectural marvel, a gleaming façade, a mirror in the middle of an urban wasteland. And yet, I am invisible. You might think—
