The Unfortunate Son (original Spanish title: "El hijo desafortunado") is a short story by Argentine author Alejandro Carrascosa. The story was reportedly written in 1922 and given to poet Ricardo Molinari before Carrascosa's disappearance in September of that year. Molinari has said that he forgot about the manuscript until he rediscovered it in 1926 and shared it with the editors of the literary magazine Martin Fierro, who published it in early 1927.