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Instrumental originally created in 1992 by me and a guitarist named Rob. I played the electric bass guitar and keyboards. I made this updated version using Suno A.I.

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I think this is the last one. It just felt wrong to not have a Leia-focused song among the Mindfire tunes. So, I wrote lyrics for “Leia’s Song” that focused more on her overall struggle, character development and triumph in an upbeat, earnest song from her point of view.
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This song is my first attempt at a fully orchestral instrumental (no pressure!).

Malevolence is a female supervillain from my Christian fiction superhero thriller novel called Mindfire. She is also the main character(Leia)'s biological mother. She's also the world's most powerful telepath and telekinetic. She is a tortured soul who gets a fascinating redemption arc. I wanted to depict her emotional transformation in a powerful instrumental that goes from dark to light. Full disclosure: I used Suno A.I. to make this.
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This one's from Mindfire, my 2019 superhero thriller debut novel. A secondary story in Mindfire involves a superhero team from 20 years in the past called The AR-MEN (the superhero team I made comic books out of for a really long time). I wrote these lyrics and used Suno A.I. to share their story (this really isn't spoiler territory) in a cool Jazz fusion style that matches the excitement of the tale.
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Ironically, this song started as something completely different. In 1987, I made "Night Vision" as an instrumental homage to the Doctor Who theme (I have no idea what the title "night vision" has to do with Doctor Who. Chalk it up to being 17 and trying to be "creative" - lol). I watched the show on PBS back then and enjoyed the Tom Baker version of the Doctor. Anyway, I decided to see what I could do with the song by uploading it to Suno A.I. and adding instruments. At first, it just didn't work. It got the melody right but adding guitars to the melody just made it loud, not interesting. So, I added "progressive rock" to the prompt. It was better but not good enough. Then I had two new inspirations: add piano and jazz overtones. And wow, that nailed it! Sure, it only loosely resembles the original, but it's still gotta impress!
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I started writing this song in late 1987, attempting to record it in a studio with just the lyrics (that was a bad idea). At the time, both the music and the lyrics weren't "ready," so the song didn't go on my 1990 Dreams & Wishes album. Eventually, I even lost the demo recording of the song, but that was for the best. But this week, I decided to rewrite most of the lyrics and even change the title. Using Suno A.I., I finally completed the song.

It was originally about having mixed feelings about my never confessing my romantic feelings towards my first crush, a childhood female friend. Now, nearly forty years later, I approached it from the point of a man who's learned from his experiences and can see the whole thing more clearly now. So, it's about closure. Since the experience was in the height of the 1980s, I went for the 1980s pop rock style and it worked surprisingly well. It's called "Better Left Unsaid."
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In 1987, my 17-year-old self was starting to get serious about songwriting. I'd even co-founded an alternative-esque band with a very close friend and we decided to call it "The Edge of Slumber." Using a four-track recorder, our instruments and voices, we put together a cassette tape album. I wrote the title track instrumental "The Edge of Slumber" with electric bass guitar on two different channels (tracks) and keyboard. A few days ago, I uploaded the original recording (from an MP3 file) to Suno A.I. and in the prompt, I told it to add drums, guitar, and other instruments. What it churned out can only be called the Epic Version
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In 1992, I was living in Bastrop, Texas with friends and wrote this tune I called "Fairytale." My friend Bobby Sahlen let me borrow his 12-string Rickenbacker guitar and with that, my electric bass guitar, a drum machine and a multi-track recorder, I put it all together. Now, in 2026, I uploaded the original recording to Suno A.I. and went to pains in the prompt to keep it as close as possible to the original. And I'm very pleased with the results.
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In 1989, I wrote a piano instrumental called "Longing For Home" and recorded it on a multi-track. I was going through some things at the time, which influenced the music, but when I tried to put a name to it, all I could imagine was someone experiencing deep homesickness during the 18th or 19th centuries. Anyway, over the weekend, I uploaded the original recording to Suno A.I. and added a few instruments (drums, strings, and electric bass guitar). It turned out very well, so I want to share it.
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In my short story "1:30 P.M." (part of Choosing Life: A Pro-Life Anthology), the main character Julie Greene is a gifted pianist and songwriter. We learn she is composing a piano piece she wants to call "Hope" or "Chasing The Sunrise" because, to her, it sounds like a young girl running through a field of flowers in the morning. In the story, she made a recording of herself playing the tune on piano as she hummed along with the melody. I put together this instrumental (using Suno A.I.) to recreate that song. To me, it also represents the happy ending of the story.

About the author

Allen Steadham is a nondenominational Christian. Happily interracially married since 1995 and the proud father of two sons and a daughter. He and his wife have been in the same Christian band since 1997. He plays electric bass, she plays strings, they both sing. It's all good.

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