Paper Cuts

Paper Cuts is a one-page two-player letter-writing game about sapphic love, longing, and seeing your life be fractured by prejudice. 

You play as lovers separated by the society you live in, writing in a desperate attempt to keep each other close in whatever way you can.  You watch, together, as the people around you learn of your love, and reject it. Reject you. You dream, together, of escaping.

Written for the One-Page RPG Jam 2026.

Inspirations: This game owes a debt to The Winter Letters by Zoheb Mashiur, Stay in Touch by Ronnie Ritchie, and most of all to Together We Write Private Cathedrals by Ben Auden Rosswell. 

Content warning and safety advice: This game deals with explicit romance between players, homophobia, and mature content in its text and during play. Please be mindful when reading it, and have a conversation with your playing partner about what you are and are not comfortable with before playing. During play, insert personal out-of-game notes before or after messages to check in on your playing partner, issue content warnings, and ask for consent when needed. Remember that there is no obligation to finish a game: play stops as soon as you are uncomfortable.

If you enjoy this game and can afford it, please consider paying a small amount for it to support more work in the future.