Witch-Woman's Snake Stick: Fantasy

The stick was lying across her path when she was walking home. Since it was the rainy season and snakes were coming out of their burrows as they flooded, she thought a stick might make a fine thing for her to pick up and use on her way home. She'd seen two vipers earlier, and though they had stayed out of her way, she knew that the right thing to do was to kill them quick, before they had a chance to get closer to the village. She felt a strange tingle run up her arm when she picked up the stick, and then she remembered that the witch-woman's hut was only a short distance away in the jungle. She shivered, and began to cast the stick aside, but then she saw the biggest snake that she'd seen in many years crawl out of the jungle towards her. She raised the stick, planning to strike it down, but the snake reared back at the mere--

Inspiration: "stick"
Story Potential: Low.
Notes: Wow. So very not interesting.