diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index eb1930c..db71190 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 
 The goal of the apatheia library is to provide a painless, suffering free way of using multi-threading with async in Nim. 
 
+It's essentially just a wrapper around best patterns for integrating nim-taskpools with Chronos multithread signalling.
+
 The main modules are:
 - queues - queues with support for async signals
 - jobs - macro and utilities for submitting jobs to a taskpool
diff --git a/apatheia.nimble b/apatheia.nimble
index da2af8c..b15ec81 100644
--- a/apatheia.nimble
+++ b/apatheia.nimble
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ srcDir        = "src"
 # Dependencies
 
 requires "chronos >= 4.0.0"
-requires "threading"
+requires "threading#head"
 requires "taskpools >= 0.0.5"
 requires "chronicles"
 
diff --git a/src/apatheia/jobs.nim b/src/apatheia/jobs.nim
index 74a677e..b326b53 100644
--- a/src/apatheia/jobs.nim
+++ b/src/apatheia/jobs.nim
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 import std/tables
 import std/macros
+import std/locks
 
 import ./queues
 import ./memretainers
 
 import taskpools
+import threading/smartptrs
 import chronos
 import chronicles
 
@@ -33,13 +35,19 @@ logScope:
 type
   JobQueue*[T] = ref object ## job queue object
     queue*: SignalQueue[(JobId, T)]
-    futures*: Table[JobId, Future[T]]
+    futures*: Table[JobId, (Future[T], SharedPtr[JobFlags])]
     taskpool*: Taskpool
     running*: bool
 
+  JobFlags* = object ## hold the result of a job after it finishes
+    lock*: Lock
+    isRunning*: bool
+    isCancelled*: bool
+  
   JobResult*[T] = object ## hold the result of a job after it finishes
     id*: JobId
     queue*: SignalQueue[(JobId, T)]
+    flags*: SharedPtr[JobFlags]
 
   OpenArrayHolder*[T] = object
     data*: ptr UncheckedArray[T]
@@ -53,6 +61,11 @@ template toOpenArray*[T](arr: OpenArrayHolder[T]): auto =
 func jobId*[T](fut: Future[T]): JobId =
   JobId fut.id()
 
+proc cancelled*[T](jobResult: JobResult[T]): bool =
+  # acquire jobResult.flags[].lock
+  # result = jobResult.flags[].isCancelled
+  discard
+
 proc processJobs*[T](jobs: JobQueue[T]) {.async.} =
   ## Starts a "detached" async processor for a given job queue.
   ## 
@@ -65,7 +78,9 @@ proc processJobs*[T](jobs: JobQueue[T]) {.async.} =
     let (id, ret) = await(jobs.queue.wait()).get()
     trace "got job result", jobId = id
     releaseMemory(id) # always release any retained memory
-    if (var fut: Future[T]; jobs.futures.pop(id, fut)):
+    var futTuple: (Future[T], SharedPtr[JobFlags])
+    if jobs.futures.pop(id, futTuple):
+      let fut = futTuple[0]
       if not fut.finished():
         fut.complete(ret)
     else:
@@ -76,9 +91,11 @@ proc createFuture*[T](jobs: JobQueue[T], name: static string): (JobResult[T], Fu
   ## Creates a future that returns the result of the associated job.
   let fut = newFuture[T](name)
   let id = fut.jobId()
-  jobs.futures[id] = fut
+  let flags = newSharedPtr(JobFlags)
+  flags[].lock.initLock()
+  jobs.futures[id] = (fut, flags)
   trace "job added: ", numberJobs = jobs.futures.len()
-  return (JobResult[T](id: id, queue: jobs.queue), fut)
+  return (JobResult[T](id: id, queue: jobs.queue, flags: flags), fut)
 
 proc newJobQueue*[T](
     maxItems: int = 0, taskpool: Taskpool = Taskpool.new()
diff --git a/src/apatheia/queues.nim b/src/apatheia/queues.nim
index f7e7643..e63830b 100644
--- a/src/apatheia/queues.nim
+++ b/src/apatheia/queues.nim
@@ -10,14 +10,9 @@ export options
 export threadsync
 export chronos
 
-type ChanPtr[T] = ptr Channel[T]
-
-proc allocSharedChannel[T](): ChanPtr[T] =
-  cast[ChanPtr[T]](allocShared0(sizeof(Channel[T])))
-
 type SignalQueue*[T] = object
   signal: ThreadSignalPtr
-  chan*: ChanPtr[T]
+  chan*: ptr Channel[T]
 
 proc dispose*[T](val: SignalQueue[T]) =
   ## Call to properly dispose of a SignalQueue.
@@ -32,7 +27,7 @@ proc newSignalQueue*[T](
   if res.isErr():
     raise newException(ApatheiaSignalErr, res.error())
   result.signal = res.get()
-  result.chan = allocSharedChannel[T]()
+  result.chan = cast[ptr Channel[T]](allocShared0(sizeof(Channel[T])))
   result.chan[].open(maxItems)
 
 proc send*[T](c: SignalQueue[T], msg: sink T): Result[void, string] {.raises: [].} =
diff --git a/tests/tjobs.nim b/tests/tjobs.nim
index de6e35c..49ab705 100644
--- a/tests/tjobs.nim
+++ b/tests/tjobs.nim
@@ -34,6 +34,17 @@ proc strCompute(jobResult: JobResult[int], vals: OpenArrayHolder[char]) =
 proc addStrings(jobResult: JobResult[float], vals: OpenArrayHolder[string]) =
   discard
 
+proc cancelTest(jobResult: JobResult[float], base: float, vals: OpenArrayHolder[float]) =
+  os.sleep(300)
+  if jobResult.cancelled():
+    discard
+    # discard jobResult.queue.send((jobResult.id, res,))
+
+  var res = base
+  for x in vals.toOpenArray():
+    res += x
+  discard jobResult.queue.send((jobResult.id, res,))
+
 suite "async tests":
 
   var tp = Taskpool.new(num_threads = 2) # Default to the number of hardware threads.
@@ -75,3 +86,8 @@ suite "async tests":
         var jobs = newJobQueue[float](taskpool = tp)
         let job = jobs.submit(addStrings(@["a", "b", "c"]))
     )
+
+  asyncTest "testing cancel":
+    var jobs = newJobQueue[float](taskpool = tp)
+    let res = await jobs.submit(addNumValues(10.0, @[1.0.float, 2.0]))
+    check res == 13.0