During the summer of 1948, O'Connor continued to work on Wise Blood at Yaddo, an artists' community in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she also completed several short stories.
Tokom leta 1948, Flaneri O’Konor je nastavila da radi na Mudroj krvi u umetničkoj zajednici ,,Jado” u Saratoga Springsu u državi Njujork, gde je takođe završila nekoliko kratkih priča.